Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like that." Soon, John gave Chafic a job at the Detroit plant as his secretary at $2.31 an hour. "He told me he could make me a gold medalist in 500 hours." After this, things grew slightly confused. Winter says that Sabino borrowed his charge plate at a department store to buy a pair of shoes, but bought $800 worth of clothes instead, and then talked him out of a 21-in. television set. Sabino "bought" John's Lincoln convertible, promising part payment in dance lessons...
Kirstein was a huge (6 ft. 4 in.), bullet-headed young man, who, though just out of Harvard, was already showing signs of becoming the U.S. version of Diaghilev himself (TIME, Jan. 26, 1953). An heir to a Filene department-store fortune in Boston, he was an editor of the arts magazine Hound & Horn, author of a rash first novel and a book of poetry, and teetering on the edge of balletomania. His dream: to found a truly American ballet company. There was nothing for it but to get the world's foremost Russian choreographer to spark it. Balanchine...
...Germany and other European nations, well along the road to recovery, are back in the market. As a result, Brazil's store of coffee for export has dropped to 7,600,000 bags v. 10,200,000 bags at the same time last year. In another few years, as new and bigger plantations come into production, the coffee shortage will probably ease. But until then, Americans can expect to pay more...
...oldtimers who did are now in executive positions or have retired." The shortage of salesmen is apparent everywhere, from the auto showroom, where a prospective buyer can often spend half an hour without anyone even bothering to take his name, to the smallest counter in a department store. Once upon a time, department-store salesmen used to break into a sprint the minute the elevator door slid open. Now, after more than a decade of mere order-taking and shelf-straightening, many of them wait until called by the floor supervisor. As Manager John Glick, of Robinson's department...
Much of the blame lies with retail management. Often, top retail management does not spend enough time teaching salesmen the qualities of their products. The average department store spends no more than two or three days in the basic training of new salespeople, and much of that time is spent simply showing them where the rest room is and how to fill out forms in quadruplicate. Such red tape is in itself a barrier to sales. Customers will often pass up an item they can use rather than wait ten minutes while the clerk fusses with an order book...