Word: stores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk about that symbol of 'elegance' for the working-class woman, the white blouse. To hell with the white blouse . . . Those polka-dotted or checked blouses are now the vogue. You can get them for 47 to 59 forints ($4 to $5) in every department store . . . Don't tell me you can't afford...
...chains. But to millions of Americans the chains the modern architect removes are still among the comforts of life: the overstuffed warmth of their living rooms; bedrooms big enough to serve as separate castles-and a refuge from the rest of the family; space to putter and store things in attics and cellars; walls that shut the outdoors out and make the inside cozy...
Empty Shelves. The nation's department store sales were well below 1948 (off 11% for the week ending July 30). But some of the drop seemed to be the retailers' own fault. The Wall Street Journal took a shopping tour of 15 cities and found that many a store had cut its stocks so deeply that it could not meet the demand for some items...
Twenty-seven years ago dusty, somnolent little Whitney, Tex. (pop. 2,000) became the recipient of a homely but extremely functional civic improvement: Druggist D. ("Doctor Dee") Scarborough installed a pine bench in the shade outside his store. The bench soon became as integral a part of Whitney's life as the Plaza in Santa Fe or Fountain Square in Cincinnati...
Died. David Albert Schulte, 76, president (1903-48) and principal owner of the nationwide Schulte cigar-store chain, chairman of the board (1923-45) of Park & Tilford, Inc. (liquor and cosmetics), president of Dunhill International, Inc. (tobacco and perfume); in Holmdel, N.J. One of Manhattan's biggest real-estate operators (he had an intuitive genius for choosing the right corner-site retail stores), Schulte began as a $5-a-week errand boy, ended owning nearly 200 stores in 125 cities...