Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upwards of 700 people attended, the men predominantly young fellows who work on Washington's newspapers and in the local bureaus of agencies and out-of-town papers ; the women, some wives, some newspaper women but the majority lively young things who spend their days at typewriters or store counters, pretty as debutantes are not. They had the time of their lives in their swankiest $11.98 copies of Paris models, dancing in the President's parlor, strolling on the President's south lawn between strings of Japanese lanterns, congregating in the lobby around the table where tall...
...many a frantic student, and to a few public utility operators and drug store keepers, yesterday was just another insufferably hot twelve hours, in which one or more boresome tasks had to be methodically faced or skillfully neglected according to long practice and tradition. To thousands of others it was a day of much desired relaxation, whether in the Red Sox bleachers, on the open road, at a nearby beach, or in a movie theatre with washed air. To the remaining few was left the function of celebrating Memorial Day as those who designated it as a holiday expected...
...Chain store taxes similar to Louisiana's are pending in several other States and addition of a few more States to the tax column would take a sizable chunk of A. & P.'s profits. Long were the conferences in A. & P. executive offices in Manhattan last week but no company comment was forthcoming, an "official spokesman" merely observing: "Mass distribution is not static." Two alternatives to chain store merchandising are already showing hardy growth-the supermarket and the voluntary chain. Not unlike the "Iowa Plan" by which oil companies sell filling stations to their operators (TIME...
...supermarket is even more of a menace to the little independent than the chain, for the supermarket can undersell them both (TIME, May 24). Moreover the supermarket, doing on the average ten times as much business as a single chain store unit, counts as only one store for taxation purposes. But what chain-store men would prefer to either the supermarket or the voluntary chain would be to persuade the public that anti-chain store legislation amounts to subsidizing inefficient or outmoded independent retailers at the consumer's expense...
...Manhattan, Dominick Roba complained to police that when two men entered his candy store and held him up,. his police dog promptly bit him, enabling the bandits to escape...