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...satisfy their need for these and other human necessities people trooped last week into 2,747 F. W. Woolworth stores in Canada (143), England (677), Germany (82) and the U. S. and Cuba (1,845). Yet if the phrase "five & ten" still trips off many a buyer's tongue, the "five & ten" has nonetheless joined the buggy and the speakeasy in the outdated past. From 1879 to 1932 Woolworth sold no single item for more than ten cents. Since 1932 WToolworth's U. S., Canadian and Cuban stores have sold items priced up to 20?, since...
...doing so in 1923 when its earnings reached the giddy peak of $31.84 a share, nor in 1927 when its profits on 1,581 U. S. and Canadian stores averaged $16,805 per store. But when profits per store began to drop in 1928 and Depression accentuated the skid, Woolworth contemplated changes. By 1932 when profits per store were down to $8,093, Woolworth's moved towards higher prices to compete with rival chains which offered a line of merchandise broader in price and quality. This year with profits per store down to $9,580 (1936),* it made another...
...counteract the downward trend of per store profits and to make room for the new goods brought in by higher prices, Woolworth has long contemplated a wholesale modernization of its stores. Last week it announced that it would start at once. To finance the operation, it had sold privately (rumor said to a large life insurance company) $10,000,000 in ten-year, 3% debentures. To start, the famed Woolworth Store No. 1,000, on Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, Manhattan will be abandoned in favor of a 5½-story, air-conditioned, granite and steel store now abuilding...
Last week they were in Venice where on the fashionable Lido Beach they entertained the former Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, and her husband Count Haugwitz-Reventlow.* At a loose end on the last night of their honeymoon the Duke & Duchess hopped into a motorboat, glided through tortuous canals up to the façade of the stately Foscari Palace now converted into a school. Here in the open courtyard they had come to see Romeo & Juliet. As they entered-the Duke in a dinner jacket, his Duchess with sapphire earclips and a white evening gown-the audience jumped to their...
...once. To appease her insatiable curiosity she became a prostitute, found the job unexciting. "I just felt completely wornout, as though I'd finished an unusually hard day's work." The earnings varied from $50 to $200 a week, but pimps and madams took all but a Woolworth-store residue. Arrested after two months' work, 30 men a day, Bertha found herself pregnant, with two venereal diseases. While waiting for her confinement she worked in a hospital laboratory, eventually gave birth to a robust baby girl...