Word: storing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Situation Adjustment. In Compton, Calif., when burglars held up Liquor Store Owner Max Stanman, and invited the half a dozen customers in the store to help themselves, customers and crooks alike marched out with arms full...
...Louis C. Lustenberger, 54, moved up from executive vice president to president of W. T. Grant Co.. second biggest U.S. junior department-store chain (after J. C. Penney), succeeding Edward Staley, 55, who became vice chairman and chief executive officer. Pittsburgh-born Louis Lustenberger joined Grant in the standards department in 1929, three years out of Carnegie Institute of Technology. In Depression '32 he moved to Montgomery Ward, rose quickly to general personnel manager and vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley...
...LUXURY STORE FIGHT for Harrods of London, Britain's most elegant department store, was won by thistle-sharp Scots Millionaire Hugh Fraser, after battle with rival Debenhams chain. Fraser, who heads $78 million no-frill, working-class House of Fraser chain, promises to maintain Harrods' morning-coat reputation...
Those unwashed minstrels of the West, the beatniks of San Francisco's North Beach and Los Angeles' Venice West, make much of their loud vows of poverty. To be poor, yak the shirtless ones as they sit scratching in store-front espresso halls, is to be holy, man, holy. But last week, the mendicants of marijuana and mad verse were in the somewhat embarrassing position of monks whose liqueur sells too well. Tourists were snapping up their stuff like Chinese back-scratchers, and the beatniks were starting to rake in the dough...
Woolworth's modernization has been forced since the end of World War II, as expanding supermarkets and drug stores grabbed an important share of the low-priced variety-store market. In self-defense Woolworth's upgraded its merchandise, spruced up its stores, shifted its emphasis to self-service stores in burgeoning suburban shopping centers. To spark its superstore and self-service programs, Woolworth's in 1954 picked a lifetime employee named Robert Campbell Kirkwood, who had started as a stock checker right out of high school in his home town of Provo, Utah 36 years before. Trim...