Word: storing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arkansas' Governor Sidney McMath, 37, arrived in Manhattan to confer a special honor of his state, the title "Arkansas Traveler," on a Center Point, Ark. girl: department store Bigwig Dorothy Shaver, president of Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor...
...fine spring day during his honeymoon, Thomas Elliott Snyder suddenly dashed into a hardware store in Charleston, S.C., bought a hatchet and scurried out again. Then, while popeyed passers-by looked on, the bridegroom began hacking at a telephone pole on one of Charleston's main business streets. A few minutes later, he triumphantly rejoined his waiting and bewildered bride, with a fine specimen of a soldier termite (genus Kalotermes) in his hand...
...Chicago department store, Santa found that many moppets were fascinated by the ticking of his watch, decided to do even better. He buried an alarm clock in his stuffed paunch. All went well until the alarm went off, sent terrified children scampering across the floor...
...Asbury Park, N.J., a mechanical laughing Santa in the window of Steinbach's department store caught fire from a short circuit. While the smoke billowed through the window, his ghostly mechanical belly laugh could be heard ringing in the streets...
This week Cummings was back in Chicago to tell his board of directors what he had learned. As a starter, Cummings would redesign most of the stores in the country by throwing out the counter. Says he: "It just keeps customers away from what they want to buy." Goods should be placed on easy-to-reach shelves. Complicated displays should be abandoned: "Too many tricky piles of cans say 'Don't touch me' when they should be saying 'Take me home.' " Stores should be painted up and lit up. A dingy little store, slipping into...