Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army, an interfaith commission acting as clearing house for the men. Applicants, who must be ordained and have three years' pastoral experience, take a stiff examination, if successful are commissioned as first lieutenants at $200 a month ($260 if married and not residents of an Army post). Top rank is colonel, with base pay of $4,000 a year, plus $156 a month if the chaplain has a family. Most chaplains are married, but not a few join the service to get away from church suppers and sewing clubs. Others like to wear a uniform, relish the security...
...South Chicago Avenue, ten miles from Chicago's swank Loop shopping district, stands a big, three-story brick building that used to be a bag factory. Today it houses a typical supermarket, Depression's great contribution to U. S. retailing. This supermarket, Trading Post, Inc., was founded in 1934 by Roy O. Dawson with the backing of the Bristol brothers, Lee, Henry and William (of Bristol-Myers...
Originally known as Dawson's Trading Post, the supermarket developed a $2,500,000 annual business but brought no returns to the Brothers Bristol. Founder Dawson was ousted last year, some $800 was spent obliterating his name from the market, and a young merchandising expert from Marshall Field & Co. named Harper Sowles was installed as president...
...opinion of President Sowles, Trading Post was sound so far as it went; trouble was, it did not go far enough. It was selling $1,500,000 worth of groceries a year, mostly canned goods, and concessionaires were selling another $1,000,000 worth of fruits, vegetables, refrigerators, tobacco, liquor, house furnishings, men's wear. What the supermarket needed, said President Sowles. was a women's apparel department. Last week in one section of the supermarket blossomed "Fashion Avenue." a row of five separate shops which are expected to develop a $500,000 annual volume. The shop windows...
Primarily a grocery store like all supermarkets. Trading Post makes only one appeal: price. It undersells even chain stores 8% to 10%. Located in the centre of a 500,000 laboring and white-collar population, it often attracts a Saturday crowd of 10,000 avid bargain-hunters. Six neighboring lots provide free parking for 1,000 cars. In the last two and a half years two people have been killed, 19 injured in the traffic snarls that the supermarket generates...