Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...file Teamsters across the nation -the men who pay their $2-to-$6 monthly dues-are content to keep their eyes on the road and not on union affairs. They roll into the city platforms to unload produce and furniture, autos and chickens. They drive cabs, deliver flowers, department-store merchandise and groceries, cart off garbage. They are strong and competent. But as Teamsters, they are either uninformed, indifferent or scared...
...terrorists of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). From its recesses they fan out to plant bombs, stab and shoot, wreaking vengeance on Frenchman and moderate Arab alike. So far this year their bombs have killed 47 civilians, wounded 263 others; as a result, anyone now entering a bus. store or cinema in Algiers is automatically searched for arms or bombs...
...retailers have ever had such a flawless grasp of supply and demand as Boston's famed brothers, Lincoln and Edward Filene. The last of the 19th century merchant princes, they made William Filene's Sons Co. into the world's largest specialty store (clothing and accessories only) and a bargain mecca admired from Paris to Peking. But Lincoln Filene, who survived his brother by 20 years, made Filene's into something much more: the hub of a nationwide Federated Department Stores network of 38 outlets with annual net sales of $601.5 million, the fountainhead...
...Answering this demand, the big, successful discounters are turning into cut-rate department stores. San Francisco's Government Employees Together, a clublike discounter aimed at Government workers, claims a wider diversity of goods than any of the city's regular department stores. Los Angeles' William Phillips Co. carries gifts, clothing, luggage and records, even added a liquor department this year. Manhattan's E. J. Korvette (estimated 1957 sales: more than $70 million), which calls itself a "promotional department store" and is even listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has quickly fanned its discount selling into...
...president of Procter & Gamble when McElroy becomes Secretary of Defense Oct. 1. Mc-Elroy's longtime protégé, St. Louis-born Soapmaker Morgens graduated from Washington University ('31) and Harvard Business School ('33), first went to work as a $150-a-month store-to-store salesman for Procter & Gamble in Kansas City, trying to interest people in soap in a Depression year when many could barely buy food. He did so well that P. & G. sent him on a cross-country tour. After six months of driving up and down country roads, Morgens reported...