Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estate of $1,234,516, and Hughes's high respect for government and municipal bonds as a safe and proper investment. They accounted for $1,101,748 of his estate, while only $39,078 was in private corporation stock-a lone investment in Julius Garfinckel & Co., Washington specialty store...
...farm-surplus headaches are in store for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson next year. Acreage controls could take nearly 34 million acres out of corn, cotton and wheat production, but only a few farmers can afford to let them lie idle. Many will plant other crops, such as flaxseed, soybeans and sugar beets, already in more than ample supply...
...little Manhattan glue and plywood store, one day in 1921, Proprietor Lawrence Ottinger turned to a 20-year-old helper and said : "Tony, there's a great future in this business. It's barely starting, and you're right on the ground floor with me." On the boss's advice, young S. W. ("Tony") Antoville, a Columbia University student, gave up his plans to go to law school, kept his job in the store and insured his future. As the U.S. Plywood Corp. (TIME, Sept. 25, 1950), Lawrence Ottinger's little store became the biggest...
...Louis department-store show window one day in 1932, Fred Allen, a reformed juggler, made his television debut. The performance was part promotion stunt for his touring show (Three's a Crowd), part demonstration of a new gadget called Sanabria Giant Television,* which transmitted a fuzzy image of Allen to an audience on the store's third floor. "I just stood there and talked," Allen recalls. "It must have come out on the screen like a jumping passport...
...only worth every penny they cost, but even more. For example, Manhattan's Sophie of Saks Fifth Ave. custom salon, where cocktail dresses sell for as much as $695, just manages to break even; the salon is operated only for the prestige it brings to the store. The markup for expensive clothes is heavy-up to 100% of cost-but it has to be so to cover overhead. At a high-fashion house like Nettie Rosenstein, the cost of designing a dress and turning out one sample may come to more than $1,000; so few copies are sold...