Word: stores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goods. In 1872 Lyman Bloomingdale, an assembler of hoop skirts, was left jobless by fashion changes. He opened a dry goods store, recorded net sales of $3.63 the first day. In 1928 Bloomingdale Bros. (Manhattan) reached the net sales total of $23,000,000. Last week it finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including...
...druggists did last fortnight, so did many another earnest business man of other occupation. For with late summer comes the crescendo of the U. S. convention phenomena and last week the movement became acute. Going to, gathered at, departing from national conventions were druggists (wholesale, retail), chain store men, credit men, life insurance underwriters, traveling engineers, bakers, merchant-tailors and designers, bankers (men, women), radio manufacturers, accountants, safety engineers, laundry owners. Traveling at reduced railroad rates they had seen new places, participated in bridge and golf tournaments, elected officers, passed resolutions, been grave...
...chief concern to the retail druggists was how to fight chain stores and whether a store can sell books, caviar, lamps, vases and still fill prescriptions reliably. One figure that pleased the druggists was that 30 out of 100 druggists survive in business compared to eight grocers...
...some-unknown reason, notification to the book store of the failure of the storics to gain the approval of the customs critics was extremely delayed. The books arrived at New York via the steamship France on August 29, but no word was received by the Phillips Book Store concerning the fate of their order until yesterday...
Once again the clarions of the moral purists are sounded in the already tired cars of the country as works by Balzac. Rabelais, Rousseau, Boccaccio, and many others, on route to a Cambridge book store are declared to be of an "obscene nature" and kept from entering the country by the New York Customs House officials...