Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golier made loud noises about how he, thrice Mayor of Bradford. Pa., had "helped elect Herbert Hoover" and now look what...
...articles to advertise at the same time, the manufacturer to pay for the cost of their pages. Woolworthmen at first turned deaf ears, explained that Woolworth windows were their best advertisements. Miss McNelis persisted, reminded them that 1929 was Woolworth's 50th anniversary, suggested the advertisements be made to look like Woolworth windows. The executives warmed up. They accepted a campaign which culminated last April in 16 pages, some two-color, some four-color, appearing in the Saturday Evening Post at a cost of $9,500 for the two-color pages, $11,500 for the four-colored. Miss McNelis...
...another idea. Why not sell magazines in Woolworth's?not magazines already in existence, but magazines edited especially for Woolworth customers, sold only in Woolworth stores? There was an outlet of approximately three billion persons annually passing up and down Woolworth aisles; people who had come not just to look but to spend. Last year they spent $287,000,000. The proposition was propounded to the executives. This time there were no deaf ears, little hesitancy. Four magazines, McNelis-Weir executed, will be sold in Woolworth stores starting with October issues. Incomplete though details were last week, with author-names...
...from this sanguine look ahead, he turned to the present and solemnly, outspokenly startled his audience. ''Our Protestant denominationalism," he said, "with over 150 sects in the U. S., has become utterly obsolete, so far as modern significance is concerned, and is now a public scandal and disgrace...
...than the recent stupendous bank mergers in Manhattan, Chicago or San Francisco have to their districts. It means that small metropoles-and Des Moines is typical of several-are moving against dependence upon the great financial centres. It means too that the half-billion and billion-dollar banks must look increasingly to the country's greater corporations and to foreign commerce for their business. The banks of smaller cities are tending to look after their regional affairs...