Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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March of Progress. In Colorado Springs, Colo., the city council abolished the 36-year-old ordinance limiting the length of women's hatpins...
Smith studied store traffic, found that 50% of cigarette customers were women, and announced the new policy. To catch the feminine eye, Smith will stock nylons, purses, costume jewelry and cosmetics. If the new-type store catches on, he hopes to make Schulte the "fastest-growing chain in America...
...Married a Communist (RKO Radio) is a celluloid bullet aimed at the U.S.S.R. -a stock gangster film with Communists dubbed into the underworld roles. Its moral is addressed to the women: don't throw over a solid union man (acted in a pleasantly wooden way by Richard Roper) for a ruggedly handsome executive (Robert Ryan) whose secretive behavior indicates that he was once a Communist agent...
Into Killian's department store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week bustled thousands of women to get something for nothing. The "something" was a small orchid. In three days, Killian's gave away 10,000, and pushed sales 53% above normal volume...
...flowers attract bargain-hunting females. In Manhattan, James McCreery & Co.'s department store holds an orchid day once a month, hands out 100,000 free blossoms a year. When Chicago's Spiegel, Inc. opens a new retail store in its widespread chain, it pins orchids on its women customers...