Word: thom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pairs of shoes, 12,000,000 pairs of socks) and J. F. McElwain Co., Nashua, N. H., shoemaker, have got along fine. The arrangement between them has been that Melville contracts to take most (now 92%) of McElwain's yearly output, to be sold through its 652 Thom McAn chain stores. Under the plan the factory sold shoes to the distributor at cost, took a percentage of net profits from sales. This streamlined combine, which eliminated all conflict between the two main branches of an industry, did away with the expense of changing over machines, putting new models...
That done, dark, horsy Melville President Ward Melville, son of the late Founder Frank (who fathered the idea of selling cheap, standard shoes at a fixed price), upped the price of his Thom McAn men's shoes 15? to $3.30 a pair. He intimated he was doing so for the good of the industry...
With Paul planning to devote full time to graduate work and instruction as a tutor in the Department of History and Stackpole moving his office in University Hall down one floor, Huntington Thom '35, of Washington, succeeds to the Conant secretarial post. Thom is a third year Law student...
Statistics on the new appointments show that Stackpole as an undergraduate was president of the Lampoon, Ivy Orator, chairman of the Dunster House Committee, and leader of the Vocal Club of the Instrumental Clubs. Thom played on the Varsity squash team and the Junior Varsity baseball team...
...graduate team lines up as L. W. Olmsted, F. I. Carpenter, M. Mazel, D. E. Burbank, E. Underwood, and H. Thom...