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Word: mcgowin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sawyer cutting the logs into lumber, a carpenter fashioning the lumber into furniture. Under this symbolic device last week hurried thousands of furniture buyers from big stores and little throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros. and Charles S. Shaughnessy of R. H. Macy. From Sterling & Welch in Cleveland went short, heavy-set George Killius, known as one of the keenest buyers in the trade. In the largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Furniture at Mart | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

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