Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having served for an extended period in Samoa with the Navy in World War II, I would not be optimistic about the chances of business success in store for a bra factory out there [TIME, Aug. 23]. In the first place, the Exquisite Form Brassiere Co. will have to provide many unusual and asymmetrical patterns for the unfortunate natives who "have been deformed by mu-mu* Furthermore, unless styles and mores have changed greatly there since 1943, the demand for the output of the brassiere company will be limited indeed, and tourists are few in numbers...
Today, despite the addition of a $10 million annex, the library is hard put to preserve, store and display its growing hoard. For lack of personnel, books from its stacks cannot be issued after 6 p.m. Its 2,300,000 maps need far more space. For lack of funds, its collection of 2,234,000 photos and slides is kept filed away instead of being exhibited throughout the country. Despite President Eisenhower's request for more funds, the 83rd Congress has appropriated only $8,965,000-a decrease of 5%-to help new Librarian Mumford take care...
...predicted it would, rose to 64.8% of capacity from 63.5% the week before. Jobs were becoming more plentiful, too. For the sixth consecutive week the Labor Department reported a decline in new claims for unemployment benefits. Business failures were down to 184, the year's new low; department-store sales and installment buying were...
...most parts of the store, customers find their own way through the racks of merchandise, try on their selections without help, stand in line at the cashier's stand, and carry their purchases home stuffed in a paper sack. Ohrbach's flouts the retail-store tradition of making all sales final on marked-down merchandise...
...Institutional Approach. For its subway trade, Ohrbach's runs high-style carriage-trade ads. It never plugs special items but plugs the store. Each ad is built around a picture, attracts attention and also makes a point, e.g., one showed a man holding up a well-dressed woman in his hand, carried the caption: "It's easy to support a woman who shops at Ohrbach...