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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soviet citizens next month will be able to sample that old staple of the U.S. consumer: installment buying. On terms of 20% to 25% down and six to twelve months to pay. Russians will be permitted to sign up for such expensive articles as motorcycles, sewing machines, cameras and luxury clothes. Service charges will be 1% to 2%, and there will be no opportunity to welsh on payments. The monthly bite will come as a payroll deduction...
...Field. Some of the most successful agencies have carved out their own special little piece of the travel market and concentrated on it. Among the fastest growers are the nationality agencies, usually run by first-generation Americans who send aged immigrants back for a last look at the old country. Cleveland's Poznan Travel Agency, opened two years ago by Tax Consultant Joseph Kupniewski, does 90% of its thriving business with aged Polish immigrants who have saved for decades to make the trip...
...their faces the mien and colors of all the Orient, wore cool-looking shorts, dresses and muumuus of every bright color, stepped lightly in street shoes, sandals, even bare feet. Thus last week, in casual Hawaiian fashion, the newest citizens of the U.S. welcomed the newest branch of an old American institution: F. W. Woolworth's five-and-dime store...
...from the red-fronted, musty-smelling Main Street fixture known in hundreds of U.S. towns for its notions and knicknacks. It symbolizes the tremendous changes that have transformed a tradition-laden giant into one of the U.S.'s most experiment-minded retailers. Eighty years old this year, Woolworth's has grown from the tiny Pennsylvania "Great 5? Store" founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth into the world's largest variety-store chain (3,290 stores). The company is now adding new stores on the average of one every three working days, the greatest expansion program of its history...
Died. Dr. Helen Flanders Dunbar, 57, psychiatrist who pioneered in the study of the relationship of emotions to physical disease, reduced psychosomatic medicine to laymen's terms (Mind and Body, a 1947 bestseller), urged parents baffled by conflicting psychiatric advice to find a middle way between too much old-fashioned discipline for their children and too much modern freedom; by drowning; in the pool of her home in South Kent, Conn...