Word: woolworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. To Cass Gilbert, Manhattan architect, by the Society of Arts & Sciences: its 1931 gold medal for architectural achievement; for designing the Woolworth Building (completed 1912), "contributing most conspicuously to the modern movement in architecture...
Best test of a good idea is performance; strongest acknowledgment, imitation. Next month will end a year's performance by Tower Magazines (Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home, New Movie), published solely for sale in the F. W. Woolworth Co. chain stores-a strategic play for the concentrated women-shopper circulation (TIME. Aug. 19, 1929). Last fortnight saw the appearance of two similar magazines on the counters of S. S. Kresge and S. H. Kress chain stores-testimonials to the idea that a million women who never patronize a newsstand will buy 10? love-fiction, mystery, Hollywood chatter every month...
Like Tower Magazines Inc., the Dell Company is emphatic that its magazines "stand on their own feet," that they are offered just like any other merchandise in Kress and Kresge stores, which do not guarantee their sale. Also like the Woolworth group, the Dell magazines already give promise of gathering bountiful advertising from makers of goods retailed by Kress and Kresge. E. g.: An inside cover advertisement for hair nets with the legend, "Sold exclusively at S. S. Kresge...
...Sears Roebuck (to Sept. 10) 251,637,498 269,113,582 -6.5 Kroger Groc. & Bak. (to Sept. 27) 196,479.070 209,552,933 -6.2 F. W. Woolworth 196,466,061 205,042,307 -4.1 Montgomery Ward 191,153,122 193,698,785 - 1.3 *Safeway Stores 165,447,527 159,374,501 4-3-8 *J. C. Penney 130,414,312 132.380,338 -1.4 American Stores 104,701,956 104,661,761 + 0.03 *S. S. Kresge Co 101,015,229 104,303,598 -3.1 *First National Stores (to Sept. 27) 82,374,588 71,699,833 + 14.8 *MacMarr Stores...
...Woolworth 52¼ 59?...