Word: penney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nineteen years ago William F. Gettle left Oklahoma for Bakersfield, Calif, to become manager of a J. C. Penney chain department store. By 1929 hard work and good fortune in Oklahoma and California oil lands rewarded him with enough money to quit the Penney company and move to Beverly Hills, Year ago he bought a five-acre place at Arcadia, 15 mi. outside Los Angeles. He and his invalid wife gave a little house-warming one night last week to christen a new pavilion and swimming pool...
...capacity. Retail sales boomed again after the quiet interlude brought by storms and bitter weather. New England merchants reported a gain of 8.9% for February but the average gain for the U. S. was estimated to be 20% to 25%. Springfield (Mass.) reported a jump of 62%. ]. J. C. Penney's chain stores reported sales for the first two months up 41%. S. H. Kress sales were up 30%, Great Atlantic & Pacific up 5.18%. Montgomery Ward reported another roaring month in February with sales up 52.2%. Their retail stores showed an increase of 29.9%, their mail order division...
James Cash Penney has done a lot for Florida. His chainstore millions built a limestone palace near Miami which Herbert Hoover used as his pre-inaugural White House. More millions went into Penney Farms where an Institute of Applied Agriculture teaches Florida farming to Florida farmers. And at least three Penney millions went into a yawning Florida hole-Miami's City National Bank. In 1928 when City National was still teetering from the collapse of the land boom and the damage of the Great Hurricane, James Cash Penney and his associates bought control, injected $2,000,000 of fresh...
Died. Thomas Penney, 74, Buffalo lawyer, prosecutor (as district attorney) of Leon Czolgosz (executed assassin of President McKinley); in Buffalo...
...Utica (clothing) 23, Montgomery Ward 10, The Globe (department store) 9, Wolf's (ladies') 8, Norman Cassiday (ladies') 6, Kresge's 6, Herman Kucharo (men's) 4, Sprankel's (men's) 4, Carley's (ladies') 4, J. C. Penney (department store) 3, Woolworth's and E. Kresge's each 2. At the news desk of the Des Moines Register and Tribune were 24 students; Des Moines Electric Co. took 2. Art and journalism students planned, wrote and illustrated Younkers' advertising copy, ran four pages...