Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When members of Harry Bridges' C.I.O. Warehousemen's Union refused to unload a freight car which had been packed with school supplies at a struck F. W. Woolworth Co. warehouse last fortnight their employers fired them, shut down. The hot Woolworth car soon visited, and shut, 35 more union warehouses (TIME. Aug. 29). Last week it continued its journeys, accompanied by pickets, chalked with signs RED HOT SCAB CAR, TWO MORE STOPS AND WE'LL ALL BE OUT, etc. By week's end more than half of the 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area...
...Franklyn Laws Mutton's "little girl," Barbara, Woolworth heiress...
...slender blonde young woman, formerly an American citizen, twice-married, once-divorced. The flashily dressed streetwalker bounced out of court. Shaggy-browed Sir Patrick Hastings, noted British barrister, rose, be to outline the case, that of Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, née Bar Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth 5?-&-10? fortune, against her husband, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, she claimed, had threatened her bodily harm...
...Princess Babs's" subsequent extravagances in Venice and elsewhere not only made great tabloid copy, but fine indignation material for columnists like Westbrook Pegler, who simmered: "At this writing your correspondent has not yet had time to visit any of the Woolworth 5-and-10? stores to observe the rejoicing. . . . It was pretty hard to keep the girls within bounds last winter when Woolworth's own little Babbie, the darling of the $10-a-week personnel, married the dream prince from Russia in a love match as pure as anything in the matrimonial record of the Goulds...
...five & ten" is now pretty much a misnomer, with Woolworth and Kresge selling items up to $1. But in England "three & six penny'' still has some semblance of accuracy. Woolworth's, which opened its first English store in 1909 and last year had 711 with profit of $32,000,000. no longer adheres to the strict price policy. But its biggest rival, the 228 Marks & Spencer stores which earned just over $8,000,000 in 1937, still does...