Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story on John and George Hartford of the A. & P. stores (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950). Researcher Fremd and writer managed to arrange for an interview that was scheduled for 30 minutes; it lasted some five hours. There was also a tour of an A. & P. store in New Rochelle, N.Y. with John Hartford ("He was wonderful; I got 30 pages of quotes including his dismay at the high cost of radishes") and an invitation to tour the Hartford country place in Valhalla, N.Y. The Valhalla tour was made with "a magnificent horse drawing a real fringe-topped surrey." After...
...economy also showed encouraging symptoms of health. Outlays for construction and capital equipment were expected to reach a record $5.6 billion this year. Department-store sales in February were up 4% from a year ago. And world investors still thought the Canadian dollar was worth 102.5 U.S. cents...
...stop marker that is functionally efficient and esthetically pleasing. So is an eye-catching, striped pointer showing the way to the Northland shopping center in Detroit. Among other examples of good sign design: the simply lettered yellow-and-red Shell Oil Co. emblem and the handsome, red-and-gold store-front label of F. W. Woolworth, which has been in use since 1885. The Woolworth sign is one of the favorites of Mildred Constantine, the museum official who organized the show. Said she: "Just look at those wonderful, round, juicy Os -like sculpture...
MINIMUM WAGES for retail store employees, now exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act, are being studied by the Labor Department, though it does not plan to try to amend the act this session. When Labor Secretary James Mitchell, himself an ex-retailer, proposed a wage floor at a retailers' convention in Washington last week, retailers angrily said that they would fight any such move...
...Edgar A. Newberry, 68, vice chairman of the board of J. J. Newberry Co., the fourth biggest U.S. variety-store chain (475 stores in 45 states), was elected chairman, succeeding his elder brother, founder of the chain, who died this month...