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...some 26,000 inhabitants, F. W. Woolworth opened a self-service store where shoppers picked prepriced wares from clerkless counters, supermarket fashion, toted them in fabric baskets to wrapping and checkout counters. Customers seemed to like it, said they saved time by not having to wait for a salesgirl. Woolworth, which finds it hard to get clerks, hopes it will make it possible for existing staffs to sell more goods-and sell them faster. If it does, Woolworth's may convert its 1,965 other stores...
...undercover aliases), she took a room in a respectable Kensington family hotel and started job hunting. Too proud to mention either her medals or her war service, she was turned down time & again . as a foreigner. She worked for a while as a $14-a-week salesgirl in Harrod's department store and as a cloakroom attendant in a Paddington hotel. Last year she got a job as a tourist-class stewardess on a ship running to Australia and New Zealand...
...activities seem to consist mostly of swimming, singing and dancing in Technicolor. Esther Williams is a spoiled society girl who left her bridegroom languishing at the altar; red-haired Joan Evans is a small-town girl who was stood up at her wedding; blonde Vivian Elaine is a salesgirl with a Brooklyn accent...
Nothing our querying looks, a salsegirl explained that the 721 Club is where men go to buy Christmas gifts for women. "It is the Club's cocktail hour now," the salesgirl added, and no further incentive was needed...
Move over to erector set counter. Gamins have congregated here. One salesgirl surrounded. "But what about the electro-dynamic turbo flow on the distributing generator head?" demanded...