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...mail-order houses and chains have increased profits not because the consumer cake is much bigger but because they have got bigger slices of it. Five months' U. S. department-store sales were up only 3% from last year against combined sales increases for Ward, Sears, J. C. Penney...
...stores this tax would be $458,328,000, more than half A. & P.'s 1937 gross sales. Melville Shoe Corp.'s 674 stores would have to pay $18,580,000. Woolworth's 1,859 stores $91,091,000. J. C. Penney's 1,540 stores...
...strikers and customers out of the stores. Before leading department stores-the Emporium, the City of Paris, the White House-pickets sang Solidarity and It's Not Cricket to Picket (from the hit labor revue Pins & Needles). Pickets played mannequin in new fashions, glistening coiffures. J. C. Penney Co. supplied its pickets with comfortable, low-heeled shoes. But by week's end, the new style strike had produced a crop of arrests, some old-style violence. Most notable: Picket Lulu Darling, somewhat mauled in a scuffle in front of Hale Bros., complained to police about the store owner...
Johnny Van Landingham, Kimball Penney, Gale Burton, and Philip Richmond pitched for Wigglesworth with Leo Marx and Temple Holcroft behind the plate. The batteries for Matthews were Richard Cleaves and Donald Brew pitching, with Dick Law catching...
...east as Kansas City. Despite their name, they sell such things as women's dresses for as much as $4.95. They are moderately profitable: Last year, on sales of $7,000,000, profit was about $170,000. Main thing that distinguishes them from competitors like J. C. Penney Co. is that they are entirely run and largely owned by Chinese. Some 90% of National Dollar's clerks (the figure fluctuates seasonally from 400 to 1,500) are white, but each store's manager is yellow. And the head of all the stores, Joe Shoong, is the richest...