Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vernon Richter, the joy of farming had vanished; life on a 4OO-acre rented farm near Fergus Falls, Minn, had become a grim effort to survive. Through the freezing winter Richter, 31, cared for his six small children so that his wife could clerk in a Fergus Falls clothing store. When spring came he went into his fields at 4 a.m., stayed until midnight fighting the soil for a fuller yield. But the bills piled...
...Boston, she was encouraged by her mother, Caroline Meade-who once trouped with Walter Hampden -to go to the Yale Drama School. When she went job-hunting in Manhattan in 1948, the only work she could get was at the Du Mont TV studio in Wanamaker's department store. She moved into network TV on the giveaway show, Winner Take All ("I gave away prizes, acted in sketches and just sort of filled in"), and did her first regular commercials as emcee of NBC's Embassy Club: "I did polite chitchat about king-sized cigarettes...
Medically and architecturally, the U.M.W. hospitals in West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky are among the most advanced to be found anywhere in the U.S. Built for the low cost of $16,000 per bed, the hospitals were designed for maximum efficiency, minimum operating cost. Each "chain-store" hospital is laid out around a central service core, from which food and drugs move by assembly belt and dumb-waiter to dispatch stations on every floor. A centralized administration and service center at Williamson, W. Va. will keep the books and do the housekeeping, e.g., maintenance, filling of prescriptions, laundry...
Brainy, pretty Elizabeth Talmadge, 32, wife of Georgia's Senator-apparent Herman E. Talmadge, set up a pitch stand in an Atlanta department store, handed out succulent slices of Talmadge Ham to sample-minded passersby. A country girl who learned how to cure hams back on the farm, able Businesswoman Betty Talmadge started her enterprise to make pin money in 1952, last year reportedly peddled 62,000 hams, pinned down a whole-hog gross...
...Omaha's red brick Fontenelle Hotel last week, the nation's No. 2 hotel chain concluded the second biggest deal in U.S. hotel history. Using a dime-store pen, Sheraton Corp.'s President Ernest Henderson and Vice President Robert L. Moore signed an agreement to buy the 22-hotel Eppley chain, largest and oldest personally owned hotel group in the U.S. Its 22 properties in six states range from Pittsburgh's 1,500-room William Penn to the 123-room Tallcorn in Marshalltown, Iowa. Price: $30 million. (In the biggest deal, Conrad Hilton paid $78 million...