Word: stores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attorney General wants to put the A. & P. out of business because it sells good food too cheap yet absorbs the difference out of profits. Maybe the American people do not necessarily feel like "fugitives from a chain store...
...familiar gold-and-black "A. Schulte" cigar-store signs on 186 busy streetcorners in the East and Midwest will be coming down soon. Up in their places will go flashy new signs reading: "D. A. Schulte, Inc., Fashion Haberdashery for Men & Women.'' Instead of cigar stores that dabbled in men's ties, shirts and socks, this week Schulte's was turning itself into clothing stores that dabbled in tobacco...
When Schulte turned in a $93,091 loss for the first six months of 1949, the directors eased President Louis Goldvogel up to chairman of the board and brought in 50-year-old H. Cornell Smith, onetime merchandising manager of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store. Smith has tackled some big jobs in his time. As a World War II colonel on General Somervell's staff, he helped organize the billion-dollar Wartime Post Exchange system, and the Pacific supply centers for the never-launched invasion of Japan...
Smith studied store traffic, found that 50% of cigarette customers were women, and announced the new policy. To catch the feminine eye, Smith will stock nylons, purses, costume jewelry and cosmetics. If the new-type store catches on, he hopes to make Schulte the "fastest-growing chain in America...
...slept, successively, in a hole in the ground, a forge, a bran trough in a livery stable, a barrel and a saloon toilet. To eat, he scavenged saloons and stole. Backsliding into respectability, he lived for a while with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"-a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was. Then, at the age of 14, he became a juggler in an amusement park. After that, his only work was to make people laugh...