Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...function of the supermarket is to provide the housewife with all the necessities-for her table, her home, her family." Thus Lansing P. Shield, president of Grand Union Co., last week set forth the big goal of Grand Union. With 46 giant new stores to be opened this year, Shield will invade the provinces of the hardware and the drug stores, push forward into the catchall domain of the dime store, turn the modern supermarket into a junior self-service department store...
...after service as a test pilot during World War I, landed a job with A. & P. as an accounting clerk and rose to general auditor in four years. In 1924 J. Spencer Weed, a onetime A. & P. vice president, hired him away to be contrailer of the venerable, 500-store Jones Brothers Tea Co. Four years later, after Weed and Shield had put Jones Brothers in the black, they regrouped it with several smaller chains into Grand Union Co. But over the years, Weed and Shield began to disagree strongly on whether Grand Union should convert its small, over...
Shield came in with a hatful of ideas, soon turned them into cash-register receipts. He systematically pruned away drab and inefficient old stores, studied population trends and home-building statistics to spot his new supermarkets. As the U.S. family moved to suburbia, Shield also packed up, moved his staff and executive offices out of downtown Manhattan to the heart of a shopping center in mushrooming East Paterson, N.J., where he built a glass-and-cut-stone emporium that chain-store experts refer to as "a mecca for supermarket operators." It is not only a thumping success in dollar sales...
...usual group of sociables. The ironic thing about it all was that the crackdown had nothing to do with college excesses or even with bars. A fourteen year-old boy was found in very bad shape due to the effects of a quart of Scotch from a local package store. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved in, everywhere, with a vengeance...
...author notes that the temporary seats in the Stadium, always filled in the past, have been dismantled and the cheerleaders no longer sport Crimson varsity athletic letters on their sweaters. The Gold Coast Porcellian Club and Max Keezer's used clothing store (now managed by Joe) were all part of the Cambridge scene in the twenties, McCarthy relates...