Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paris. He quickly closed a bargain by which the ten-year-old, still unfinished and partly empty Pennsylvania Museum would store the famed Gangnat Renoirs free, with the privilege of exhibiting them when it pleased. Slender, black-eyed M. Gangnat took the opportunity of visiting the U. S. and last week was in Manhattan on his way to Hollywood...
...summer of 1912, George Rixon Benson, president of Chicago's Benson & Rixon Co. clothing store, and Millionaire George Rasmussen, head of National Tea Co. until his death in 1936, made a trip to Wisconsin in a high-sided Stearns touring car. Every night when he shed his goggles Tourist Benson was irked to find that, though his linen duster had protected his jacket, his trousers had got thoroughly dirty. Tourist Rasmussen, however, had solved that problem in advance, had a change at the end of a day: his tailor had made him an extra pair of pants...
...each. Customer response was feeble. Undaunted, Mr. Benson tried again with 4,000 two-pants suits, all at $17. These, aggressively advertised, sold. Manufacturers, sensing fewer unit sales, fought the innovation, but it caught on, became a trend. By 1929 Benson & Rixon's one-store $200,000-a-year business had developed into a seven-store chain with annual trade...
Covering modeling, theatre, and nightclub jobs as possibilities for girls who are beautiful; publishing, advertising and department-store jobs for girls who are brainy; and social work, education, office work and odds & ends for others, Author Leaf finds these fields all overcrowded. Models get $5 or $10 for a sitting, but of 10,000 girls in New York who think they are models, only 200 qualify as professionals. A few make from $5,000 to $10,000 a year, but probably only 15 average $150 a week, and clothes, beauty treatments and agents' fees take a lot of that...
...Jukes family. As for newspaper work, he calculates that some 2,000 girls in New York hope to land one of the 20-odd jobs now held by women reporters on the eight big dailies. Education and social work look like the best bets to him. Department-store selling he puts at the bottom of the list, because he has seen more usually calm women "knock their nervous systems to hell" in that than in any other job. Giving the little girls credit for being able to take care of themselves, and comparing their possible salaries with New York living...