Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have been shocked at some of the changes gradually wrought in his empire. Not long after his death, the Gannett papers endorsed a Democrat-Edmund S. Muskie, running for Governor. Editing tightened: no longer was it considered news when a Portland merchant laid fresh bricks over the old store front. The papers' rock-bound horizons expanded; one Portland staffer went to India on a fellowship, another to France...
Bell executives recently ran a test in Baltimore, discovered that telephone salesgirls sold 112% more department store goods than floor salesgirls, at a cost 51% less. They do not intend to let merchants forget it. Says A. T. & T. Assistant Vice President James V. Ryan: "We will soon launch an advertising campaign to persuade more people to shop by phone. The merchants had better get ready to handle the phone calls," i.e., install more, phones...
...Nationwide department store sales for the first week in February soared 9% over the comparable week of 1958. For January, the Commerce Department estimated total U.S. retail sales at $16,340,000,000, up more than $1 billion from January...
...Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tony Randall as a department store clerk with hopes that his 40-ft. yacht, if he can ever get it out of the basement, will get him away from...
...demand from automakers, electrical-equipment manufacturers and home builders led domestic producers to predict continuing recovery during the remainder of 1959. ¶Construction in January slipped slightly from December but still posted an all-time record for the month at $3.7 billion, v. $3.3 billion in 1958. ¶ Department-store sales as a measure of consumer confidence increased 8% from the comparable period in 1958. The full-month totals for January show a 6% increase over last year. Of twelve Federal Reserve Districts reporting, only one of them, Minneapolis, failed to gain. ¶ Freight carloadings rose 5.8% last week...