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...assembled Vagabonds the story of the shot heard round the world. For he feels that only a wanderer can show a good Bostonian the beauties of the local scene. The Vagabond has no birthplace and no local pride, and so he has been able to show the Woolworth Building to New Yorkers, Independence Hall to Philadelphians, and the Loop to the inhabitants of our Western metropolis. And similarly he will not forget to teach Bay Staters to browse beside their far-sung rocks and rills...
Chain stores make money by piling up tiny profits. In one year the F. W. Woolworth Co. sold 45 tons of candy, 5,113 miles of curtaining, 54 million handkerchiefs. Miss Pidgeon showed that, though their sales had doubled in a decade, this enormous turnover brought no enormous wages to salesgirls. Labor is a prime item in chain-store operation. Where customers can readily see the entire stock, make their selections unaided, the cheapest, most inexperienced young clerk can perform the simple task of wrapping bundles, ringing up receipts...
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...Woolworth Co. (In 1929, exclusive of 400 British and 60 German stores, sales were $303,034,000, a new high record. December sales in 1020 lower than in 1928. More than 1,800 U. S. stores and additional Canadian and Cuban units): Net 1929 profit, $35,664,252 as against...
...Suspicious." The executive committee of the Amateur Athletic Union sitting in conclave in the Woolworth Building, Manhattan, dwelt on the word. They were talking about Stanislaw Petkiewicz, Polish runner, beater of Paavo Nurmi, who had asked for permission to run in U. S. meets (TIME, Dec. 30). Had some promoter asked Petkiewicz to come over? Was he really interested simply in finding how law -his chosen subject-is taught in U. S. schools? Who were his friends? These questions, to the executive committee presided over by a serious man named Avery Brundage, seemed far more important than whether Petkiewicz could...