Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Samuel Klein, 56, world's biggest and fastest independent retail seller of women's clothing; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. He was founder and sole owner of the fabulous S. Klein store on Manhattan's Union Square, a vast establishment (more than 400,000 square feet of floor space) that grosses some $30,000,000 a year without benefit of sales clerks or advertising. Klein started in business with less than $100, reached a personal income of some $1,000,000 a year by selling dresses in enormous quantities at small profits, with a minimum...
...breakdown and asked permission to retire. Reasons: for months Bishop Lothe has been treated with "icy disdain" by the townspeople; his congregation in Trondheim Cathedral, where he preaches in uniform, has dwindled to a mere handful; soon after he gets on a crowded streetcar he often finds himself the sole occupant...
Australian-born, 70-year-old General Carpenter was a $1.25-a-week printer's devil before he joined the Army in 1892. "My sole program for the Army," he says, "is religion-always hot, as General William Booth used to say he liked his religion...
...revolts and insurrections from Albania to Slovenia seemed to be organized either by spontaneous local groups of peasants and workers or by Communists. Said a traveler to Istanbul from Sofia: "The Bulgarian people today see the sole hope for their country's future salvation in the creation of closer ties with Russia." The London Daily Herald's correspondent cabled from Istanbul: "If a Balkan front were to be opened up by the United Nations today . . . there would be revolution in Bulgaria tomorrow...
...Fernando Valley (Calif.) Times turns a neat profit without benefit of comics, syndicated features, national advertising, a sports page, or even a sales price. The standard-size throwaway, 62,000 copies of which are distributed free twice a week, is not interested in World War II. Its sole interest is in telling the valley's 200,000 residents about themselves, and playing ball with valley merchants. They pack its 40 pages with advertising (including twelve solid pages of classified ads) to the exclusion of big Los Angeles merchants. The man who perfected this successful formula now has developed...