Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Verbum Sap. In Martinsburg, W. Va., Farm Machinery Dealer Ray Albright put an ad in the Journal: ALL THIEVES please quit breaking into our store. We never leave any money around the place after closing hours...
Headquarters for one of the biggest entertainment enterprises in the U.S. are two crowded cubbyholes at the back of Super Cut-Rate Drugs on Seventh Street, N.W., in downtown Washington. The men who run it are two brothers from Hagerstown, Md., Irvin and Israel Feld, who opened the store in 1939 and spread out into music with the ease of an Alka-Seltzer foaming through a glass of water...
...started when Irv and Izzy decided that their lunch-counter customers might be in the mood for music. In the rear of their store, somewhere between notions and prescriptions, they put in a record department. That started an extraordinary chain reaction: the records sold faster than hot cakes, so the boys eased up on hot cakes and expanded the record department. As they found need for more room, the brothers set up separate Super Music City stores (three of them by now). When they did not have the right records to sell in their stores, they set up their...
...Richard Weil Jr., 46, onetime president of Macy's Manhattan store (world's largest) and advocate of "practical thinking" and "trained intuition" for solving management problems, was appointed chairman of the new five-man operating committee for Schenley Industries, Inc. (biggest U.S. distillery). Yaleman Weil, grandson of one of Macy's founders, resigned from Macy's after a year of falling profits and a money-losing price war on fair-trade merchandise. Since then he has been serving as unpaid president of the National Association for Mental Health...
...Owings & Merrill, will have 60-ft.-wide work spaces, movable acoustical partitions, and horizontal and vertical conveyer belts for interoffice mail. There will be escalators, patios, glass walls, a cafeteria cantilevered over a reflecting pool (ice-skating rink in winter), a 400-seat theater, bowling alleys, an employees' store, tennis courts and a babbling brook. Executives will have a penthouse-topped wing, connected with the main building by a three-story, glass-enclosed bridge...