Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This put a bee in the cap of an Annapolis midshipman named Joseph SpielVogel. He left Annapolis and one day, while studying engineering in Newark, N. J., he found himself fingering some crepe paper in a 5? & 10? store. The result was the Vogel-type aligning paper which he put on the market in 1934. It is a finely corrugated paper, ruled so that it can be torn in narrow horizontal strips and cemented to a backing sheet. The typist writes on the corrugated side and, when finished, takes a pair of tweezers, lifts the strips loose, stretches them...
...Tecumseh Okla., the State Training (reform) School for Girls last month gave for 38 honor inmates a dance to which selected young men were invited. During the evening Hercule Cook, 21, a store clerk met and renewed his interest in Evelyn Steel, 17, a friend he had not seen for two years. Last week in the honor cottage of the institution, they were married and Mrs. Cook was paroled to Mr. Cook...
...never thought of doing so in 1923 when its earnings reached the giddy peak of $31.84 a share, nor in 1927 when its profits on 1,581 U. S. and Canadian stores averaged $16,805 per store. But when profits per store began to drop in 1928 and Depression accentuated the skid, Woolworth contemplated changes. By 1932 when profits per store were down to $8,093, Woolworth's moved towards higher prices to compete with rival chains which offered a line of merchandise broader in price and quality. This year with profits per store down...
...counteract the downward trend of per store profits and to make room for the new goods brought in by higher prices, Woolworth has long contemplated a wholesale modernization of its stores. Last week it announced that it would start at once. To finance the operation, it had sold privately (rumor said to a large life insurance company) $10,000,000 in ten-year, 3% debentures. To start, the famed Woolworth Store No. 1,000, on Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, Manhattan will be abandoned in favor of a 5½-story, air-conditioned, granite and steel store now abuilding...
...places, started talking about it when he took office early last year. By last week the affairs of the ancient & honorable board were making a resounding racket in Philadelphia's narrow streets and connected with the noise were two other ancient Philadelphia institutions-an equally old department store and a venerable firm of attorneys...