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...cannot be sold cheaply, point to Modern Age, which a year and a half ago sank a fortune in less-than-a-dollar books, is only now breaking even. Publishers say that U. S. living standards are too high, that even in bad times U. S. citizens are anti-Woolworth about books...
During the wide spread poliomyelitis epidemic in 1931, there arose an urgent need for some more effective mans to save the live patients with paralysed lungs than the Drinker respirator. To the rescue came John H. Emerson, who was at that time manufacturing scientific apparatus in over Woolworth's on Brattle Street...
...stores times the number of States. For the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s 11,752 stores this tax would be $458,328,000, more than half A. & P.'s 1937 gross sales. Melville Shoe Corp.'s 674 stores would have to pay $18,580,000. Woolworth's 1,859 stores $91,091,000. J. C. Penney's 1,540 stores...
...loaded by non-union workers) of Woolworth 5-&-10? school supplies, whose visits closed 137 of 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area (TIME, Sept. 5), was the device used by the Association of San Francisco Distributors to show what an employers' union could do against a labor union. The hot car forced the employers' issue: their demand that the union should give them a master contract covering all warehouses until 1940. To I. L. W. U. the master contract looked like a device to write off concessions previously won from individual employers and strait-jacket...
Along the trail of trouble that followed San Francisco's non-union "hot car" of Woolworth school supplies (TIME, Aug. 29), owners of 121 closed warehouses and 35 open but strike-crippled department stores still held out for concessions in new labor contracts, fighting C. I. O. warehousemen and A. F. of L. clerks to a standstill. But San Franciscans were cheered last week by more significant news: Harry Bridges' C. I. O. longshoremen and Pacific Coast shipping line operators at last agreed, subject to rank-and-file approval, to sign contracts promising peace on the water front...