Word: stockroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidency in 1939 at a time when the company had just turned in a loss of $937,186. Its stock, which had once sold at 98¼, had sunk to 2¾. At 36, Phillips knew plenty about the shirt business; for 15 years he had clerked in the stockroom of the family plant, worked on credit, advertising and sales. Thanks partly to the wartime boom in textiles, but even more to Phillips' shrewd, hard-selling management, the company's sales began to climb rapidly...
...imports for war supplies, manned checkpoints on the road to Jerusalem as big food convoys moved to the city's Jews. In answer to Bernadotte's call for more help, 50 U.N. employees from Lake Success signed up to go to Palestine. Some were guards, others were stockroom clerks or statisticians or employees in the U.N. movie unit. Among the gear hastily issued them before they took off from La Guardia Field for Palestine were .35-caliber Smith & Wesson revolvers, without ammunition. If Bernadotte chose to issue them bullets, the little band in white caps and grey uniforms...
...York Society for the Suppression of Vice, blew off a bit of steam after reading D. H. Lawrence's The First Lady Chatterley* (TIME, March 27). He discovered "obscene" passages on 92 pages of the book, prodded police to seize the 398 copies in its publisher's stockroom. Said Dial Press Publisher George W. Joel: Not one of "approximately sixty reviews . . . mentioned any obscenity. As a matter of fact, we consider it very tame...
Despite his tender years, Dart is already an ex-Alger hero. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, handsome, he played football at Northwestern University, graduated in 1929, went to work as a stockroom clerk in a Walgreen store in Chicago, married Ruth Walgreen, the founder's daughter, and rose to be general manager of Walgreen Co. By last year he had been divorced from the founder's daughter and quit...
Exultant at capturing the largest U.S. editorial staff (1,309), the Guild proclaimed its victory a death blow for craft unions representing editorial employes only. Members of A.N.W.A. retorted that only 70 Guild votes came from strictly editorial staffmen, and inferred that, barring stenographers, stockroom boys, morgue clerks, etc., Times editorial employes actually preferred a craft union-or at least were against the Guild's pink leadership-by three...