Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embodying the results of an investigation into the retail shoe business in the United States, the second in a series of chain store bulletins has just been published by the Bureau of Business Research of the Harvard Business School. The first of these bulletins dealing with the chain grocery field, was issued last June and data for a third, on drug stores, is now being collected. Containing all kinds of statistics gathered by the Business School research workers, the reports are considered of great value...
...Chicago, a thief stole 350 shoes from the automobile of Charles Weiss, shoe salesman. All were for the left foot...
...father was. She works in the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. His brother Herbert Bayard never was particularly studious. Nine years younger than Gerard, Herbert went to Harvard, returned to his hometown, St. Louis, to work for the Post-Dispatch. The family, which still owns one of the biggest shoe stores in town, objected to his newspaper career, were finally reconciled when he became executive editor of the now defunct New York World...
Cost studies will be made of the chain store system in connection with shoe, drug, and junior department stores. Last year's studies on the chain grocery business and on department and specialty stores excited much comment. The survey of grocery stores included 100 chain companies, with 33,482 stores, and is the first authentic one to be made...
Besides railroads few great companies acted on dividends last week. Usual dividends were declared by New England Public Service and Coca-Cola International. A few companies ordered larger dividends than customary: United Shoe Machinery Co., Household Finance Corp. Singer Manufacturing Co. reduced its habitual extra dividend from...