Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result is inconvenience for both the senior thesis writer and anyone else wishing to use the material with which he is working. Because seniors have no place in the stacks where they can store their thesis books while using them, many are forced to haul loads of twenty or thirty volumes back to their rooms. Equally important, when the books are out of the library, they are unavailable for other people who may need them, sometimes for just a few minutes' work...
Career: After two years as a grocery clerk, Mitchell opened his own butter and egg store, went bankrupt four years later. In 1929 he went to work as a clerk in the Western Electric Co. plant at Kearny, N.J., lost the job in a 1932 Depression layoff. The Depression brought him his first public job, as director of the Emergency Relief Administration in New Jersey's Union County. In 1936 he returned to Western Electric as a clerk, but soon moved on to personnel training. Two years later Lieut. Colonel Brehon Somervell, then New York administrator of the Works...
Sell That City. After a shaky career as farm hand, clerk, traveling salesman and partner in a bookstore, Thornton settled down in a mortgage business in an office over a Dallas cigar store. The business grew into the present Mercantile National Bank, one of Dallas' Big Three. Although Bob became a bank president and a local big shot, he made his reputation as a supersalesman. "Everybody's got to sell," he says. "Preacher's got to sell his sermon, butcher's got to sell his beefsteak." And Thornton had to sell Dallas...
...took her to Kansas City, where, after her divorce, he married her. He used to come back to Pleasanton in a Cadillac convertible with men whom he fatuously introduced as "my broker" and "my lawyer." During the next four years, he lost money playing the stock market, in liquor-store ventures and in an airplane crop-dusting business. He drank and gambled. His wife left him. He turned to passing bad checks in hospitals, and then to holding up cab drivers. In 1952, he went to the Missouri penitentiary for robbery...
...Chrysler deal was not the only big deal for Zeckendorf last week. He also paid about $7,000,000 for Manhattan's stodgy old (116 years) James McCreery department store, owned by Associated Dry Goods Corp., which controls the Lord & Taylor stores. He got the building, fixtures and equipment (but not the inventory), began looking around for "a real big operator" to lease it to. At week's end, he thought he had just the operator: Manhattan's Ohrbach's (TIME, Dec. 13, 1948), a fast-growing Union Square store that has been thinking of moving...