Word: stores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after the book had been distributed store executives began asking if they could use the material for window displays. TIME'S Merchandising Director, Stuart Powers, and his staff worked five of the TIME readers' coats of arms into displays for men's stores. (You can see them this month in some 200 stores across the U.S.) Cluett-Peabody, makers of Arrow shirts, ties, etc., heard about the displays and asked us for permission to use 15 of the coats of arms as designs for a new line of "heraldic neckwear...
...packed with meat (one hog, half a baby beef, and 15 or 20 chickens) but she was still a little put out about the time she didn't get some pork chops thawed out soon enough for lunch and had to buy eight for $1.70 at the country store. "That just about broke my heart," said Mrs. Goodhue. "They'll tell you that the farmers are getting good prices for their hogs. But there's an awful difference between what we get and what we pay over the counter...
When St. Laurent first came to Ottawa, he said with a trace of pride: "I know nothing of politics or politicians." The boast was not entirely true. As a boy, he worked as a part-time clerk in his father's general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...
...rate of industrial layoffs had slacked considerably. In the latest week, said the Labor Department, new claims for jobless benefits totaled only 251,000, the lowest for any week since last November. Department store sales, hard hit by the hot summer, had also perked up a bit; retailers saw better business ahead. At the end of July, said FRB, 296 of the largest department stores had ordered $401 million in new goods, v. $286 million at the end of June...
...biggest properties, Barnsdall Oil and Ogden Corp., into the Barnsdall Oil Co., Odium reported that the asset value of Atlas shares was again on the increase. During the first half of this year, asset value dropped from $27.18 a share to $26.27, mostly because Atlas was selling off department-store and liquor shares. But, having bought into mining properties, Atlas' asset value was up again last week to $28.10, well above its selling price of $22.63 on the big board...