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...James T. Leftwich, 64, who has been with the F. W. Woolworth Co. for 40 of the dime-store chain's 75 years, becomes its new president next month. Leftwich joined Woolworth's Chicago office in 1913, became an accountant in 1916 and worked his way up through the comptroller's and treasurer's branches. The company's financial expert, he will take over from...
...facade of the building are the bold initials G.U.M.-for Glavny Universalny Magazin (Principal Department Store). G.U.M. is Moscow's answer to Macy's, Gimbels, Sears Roebuck, Woolworth and A. & P., all rolled into one. Scheduled to open next week, but already three weeks behind schedule, it is being hailed in advance by the Soviet press as "the biggest and the best in the U.S.S.R...
...First three: F. W. Woolworth, 1,787 stores; S. S. Kresge, 627; W. T. Grant...
...customer was sending in big orders for poster paint in tiny bottles. "Being of an inquisitive nature." he went to Minneapolis and found that the paint was going into paint-it-yourself kits containing unpainted plaster figurines. Before long, Klein was making and selling so many similar sets to Woolworth and Kresge that he was the "world's biggest manufacturer of figurine kits...
...theatre, and old, but you don't look. It is very small because she is leaning into a mirror almost in front of you. Then she turns around and you notice for a minute that she is wearing a little house-coat like your aunt buys in Woolworth's and she has makeup...