Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought a swarm of hungry, would-be film makers to Hollywood, often with no more equipment than a desk, a chair and an idea. One of the eager idea-men is Marc Frederic, 40, an ex-department-store buyer who was short on cash but long on inspiration. Luckier than most, he joined forces two years ago with Gifford Phillips, an heir to the Jones & Laughlin steel fortune, who had both money and the conviction that film was going to be the biggest thing in television...
JUNE-Cost of Living. In Sherman, Texas, Price's department store advertised $2 shirts...
Women are by far the worst offenders. Last week Manhattan's Jane Engel specialty store, whose well-heeled women customers return up to 20% of their purchases, tried a plan to cut returns. It offered to give its customers a merchandise bonus of 7% on their purchases three times a year, provided that their returns in the previous four months had not exceeded 10%. Jane Engel seemed to be cashing in on the plan already. Although total New York City retail sales lagged 8% behind last Christmas, Engel's reported that its sales were...
...MARCH OF TIME'S History in the Making Series." Last week, encouraged by the box-office returns in Manhattan, MOT decided to reissue its whole stock of 205 films in eleven other coast-to-coast cities, planned to include more cities as prints became available. Sample sights in store: Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon out to overthrow Roosevelt's New Deal; the rise of Adolf Hitler; Father Coughlin and Huey Long on the stump; the Midwest's bleak Dust Bowl...
Bourgeois Weakness. In Budapest, Hungary, after two factory nursery-school directors tried to buy chamber pots at a government store and were told that only unsuitable Japanese flower vases would be available until next year, the trade-union paper Nepszava angrily commented: "The small children of the nursery are in no position at all to wait until January for the pots...