Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes most small toys of polyethylene, a durable material that can be turned out up to 64 times faster than metal. Unlike most toy manufacturers, who virtually close down for six months when the Christmas lights go off, Marx sells 90% of his output to the big chains, e.g., Woolworth and Walgreen's, which do a brisk year-round toy business, and Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney, which order in huge quantities early in the year. Thus he cuts costs, keeps his plants humming and most of his work force busy three shifts a day all year...
There are queues everywhere, most of all in the GUM, the big department store on Red Square, half Oriental bazaar and half Woolworth, where store police direct orderly lanes of purchasers first at the counters, then at the cashiers, finally at the delivery windows. The tourist is not likely to find anything he will want to buy at GUM. In the Metro underground, with its palatial stations of marble and glittering chrome, where escalators move at twice the speed of those in the New York subways, Muscovites seem just as glum and incurious as those in the streets. Many will...
...have to look far. In 1879 F. W. Woolworth had founded the country's first five & ten, in Lancaster...
Seven years later he had seven branches in eastern Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, and his business was flourishing. Kress freely borrowed Woolworth's ideas, shrewdly located his first store in Memphis, where there was a ready market for low-cost merchandise-and no competition...
...Woolworth Hour...