Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Langrock's new store, planned in the form of a Cape Cod cottage, was designed to meet the trend of University building which is moving toward the Charles. It is also announced that the personnel of the new branch will include men from the present main store near the University Theatre...
Last week's deal with Consumer Distribution Corp. was a feather in the cap of philanthropic Merchant Filene, who since 1909 has been preaching the gospel of co-operative retail merchandising, financing co-ops through the uncooperative profits from Filene's Department Store. Consumer Distribution Corp. is the first enterprise of a new $1,000,000, Filene-financed corporation formed a year and a half ago to establish a nation-wide league of U. S. cooperatives. It will run Greenbelt's general store, food and meat market, drugstore, cinemansion, barber shop, garage and milk route. Prices will...
...environs, the Friends met daily in Swarthmore's roomy Field House and its towering limestone chapel. Foreign delegates soon learned that the chapel was given by Philadelphia's rich Quaker Clothier family, while the other-half of the ownership of the city's famed department store, the Quaker Strawbridges, are benefactors of Haverford...
...natives set fire to the store, radio station, warehouse, and as we put out we could see several houses burning," said Physician-Commissioner Fields. "We "hoped to find a vessel at sea which would take us to Nassau. However, after cruising several hours we ran out of fuel, and our motor broke down. We drifted for four days at sea without food or water...
...between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying to salvage his Zion Institutions and Industries Inc.-candy bar, cookie and lace factories, cement plant, bakery, bank, department store and publishing house-since 1933. Its assets were 87? in 1907, $10,000,000 in 1927, $6,000,000 in 1932. Subsequently Rev. Voliva tried to reorganize Zion Industries under Section 7/-B, failed, and likewise lost control of Zion City's theocratic municipal government. Last week Federal Judge Charles...