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...Negro sit-in campaigns to achieve equality in sitting down at lunch counters won three more victories last week. Variety stores (all of them national chains: Woolworth, Kress, Grant) in Durham, N.C., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Miami, Fla. opened counters to all customers without discrimination. Since the sit-in movement began last February in Greensboro N.C., counters have been desegregated in 32 other cities and counties in the South and the border states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Counter-Revolution | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...Woolworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: At the Half | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

Most U.S. merchants could detect no concerted shunning of Japanese goods by their customers. Big U.S. companies that import from Japan-such as Sears, Roebuck, Woolworth, Montgomery Ward-all insist that they intend to continue importing Japanese goods. Said a top executive of Boston's William Filene's Sons: "From the corporate point of view, to stop selling Japanese goods would be like closing school because a couple of kids had broken some windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEN FOR JAPAN'S GOODS: Will Riots Hurt Their U.S. Market? | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...company, the McCrory Corp., was formed from three chains-the B.T.L. holding company (a corporate shell of the Butler Brothers variety chain), United Stores Corp., and the McCrory-McLellan Stores Corp. With 461 stores, the new company will rank fourth among U.S. low-priced chains (first three: F. W. Woolworth, W. T. Grant, S. S. Kresge). The man who masterminded the merger is Meshulam Riklis, 36, who in only nine years has risen from a part-time, null security analyst, who had to teach Hebrew on the side to make ends meet, to boss of the big Rapid-American Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Rapid Riser | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...store H. L. Green chain. He says that he controls 15% of the outstanding common stock, will continue to buy until he gets control (an estimated 20% of the common stock). If he succeeds in acquiring Green, his chain-store empire will be second only to Woolworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Rapid Riser | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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