Word: stores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cohens eventually decided that they had better hire a lawyer to advise them. They had to rent a loft in a warehouse (at $50 a month) to store the prizes as they arrived. For five weeks Mrs. Cohen stayed away from her job as forelady in an overalls rental concern, to answer mail and telephone calls. Between times she tried to figure out which of the hundreds of prizes she and the family should keep. When there was nothing else to worry about, well-meaning friends took up the slack by telling the Cohens that they would end up thousands...
...area known as the Midway, between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 1945, while watching a St. Paul movie one evening, Presbrey stirred nervously in his seat, decided that he had better go out in the street and have a look around. He walked right into a $500,000 department-store fire...
Into Killian's department store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week bustled thousands of women to get something for nothing. The "something" was a small orchid. In three days, Killian's gave away 10,000, and pushed sales 53% above normal volume...
Killian's was not the only store to discover that free flowers attract bargain-hunting females. In Manhattan, James McCreery & Co.'s department store holds an orchid day once a month, hands out 100,000 free blossoms a year. When Chicago's Spiegel, Inc. opens a new retail store in its widespread chain, it pins orchids on its women customers...
...Hill had tried almost everything else on the island of Hawaii before Dible got him into flowers five years ago. Hill's first job, in 1913, was selling eyeglasses to Japanese plantation hands on Hawaii at $3 apiece. He did so well that he opened a jewelry store, later branched out to finance, real estate, autos (he has the General Motors franchise on Hawaii), movie theaters (he owns ten) and utilities (he is president and principal stockholder of Hilo Electric Light Co., Ltd.). When Hill's wife started shipping a few orchids from her garden...