Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school. The labor of Cruz and others, plus $4,000 worth of fixtures, glass and plumbing, raised a building that might have cost $75,000 or more in the U.S. Lima sent teachers, and Cruz's son went to classes; now, at 15, the boy runs a store of his own, selling soap, candles, flour and cigarettes. Other suggestions, planted with the mayorales, brought about a reforestation program, a new water system, training in the trades...
...went quickly to work. He planned to give raises in specific places and departments where they were long overdue, hoped to stir up employee initiative by loosening the tight controls imposed by Avery, e.g., allow buyers to buy-virtually impossible under Avery. He hoped to open up a new store or two, lay plans for an employee pension plan, put an end to the traditional Avery policy of secrecy with the press. To replenish Ward's ravaged top executive echelon, down to one vice president, he began setting up a new management team. In one day he named three...
...Manhattan for a speech before a group of security analysts, President Fred Lazarus Jr. of giant Federated Department Stores, second biggest department-store chain* in the U.S., was asked if he did not agree that the Fair Trade laws are unenforceable. Lazarus agreed. Said he: "The same attitude is developing in this country on Fair Trade as developed on prohibition laws...
...Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer brought out their untidy, slapdash book, U.S.A. Confidential, they quickly became targets of half a dozen libel suits (TIME, May 19, 1952), based on the character assassination that helped make the book a bestseller. Biggest and most important was brought by Dallas' Neiman-Marcus store, which sued for $7,400,000 because Lait and Mortimer had written: "Some Neiman models are call girls . . . and the Dallas fairy colony is composed of many Neiman dress and millinery designers." Crown Publishers Inc., which published U.S.A. Confidential, promptly decided that it could not defend the Lait-Mortimer brand...
Smooth metal dog tags on non-tarnishable chains, authorized by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, will soon be available to each University student--at his favorite grocery store...