Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from people who want to know the name of the song played at 3:12 yesterday afternoon." Yet when the station asked whether listeners wanted numbers identified on the air, 15,000 wrote in to scotch the notion. The music is also popular with merchants. "I asked a store clerk the other day where they got their nice music," says Wright, "and he said, 'Why, that's your station.' " WPAT's only problem is a product of its success: so many advertisers now want to buy time that WPAT risks the temptation of growing into just...
...Ralph Lazarus, 43, fourth-generation retailer of the Lazarus merchant family, stepped up to president of Federated Department Stores, Inc., which grossed $601 million in the past year from its 38-link chain. His father, Co-Founder Fred Lazarus Jr., 72, moved up to chairman. Former Chairman Lincoln Filene, 92, also a founder and the dean of U.S. retailers, eased into the new job of honorary chairman. The executive switch means that Fred Lazarus will steadily relinquish more authority to his son, who in 22 years with the company following his graduation from Dartmouth has held every post from sales...
...Infinitum. In Tokyo, police spotted Mitsushi Tanimoto in a store picking a woman's pocket, made the arrest and then nabbed the woman, who was so busy shoplifting sweaters that she had not noticed the pickpocket...
...kill her, or maybe that you should do it for me." By the following day, after six more glasses of port, the doctor's mind was made up. "We must kill her," he said. Without a word, Simone Deschamps rose from her chair, went to the local hardware store and bought a Boy Scout knife...
...Department-store sales for the week ended May 25 slipped 1% behind the corresponding week in 1956. Yet according to the Federal Reserve, sales for the year to date were 2% better than last year. Predicted Chicago's Commercial Discount Corp., after a survey of 361 retailers: sales will wind up 1957 at least 6% higher than 1956's record...