Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...boss of Seattle's $30-million-a-year Bon Marche department store, Kentucky-born Rex Liebert Allison, 39, was afraid that he wasn't getting his share of customers from the city's fast-growing population. Hemmed in on the south by its industrial district and on the east & west by Lake Washington and Puget Sound, Seattle was moving north, away from the old shopping area...
...find a way to reach the new Seattle citizens, Rex Allison in 1946 ordered an aerial photographic map of the entire north end. He pored over the map with pencil and compass, soon found that a suburban branch located just outside the city limits would be within twelve minutes' driving time of 275,000 people who spend $500 million every year. Allison sold the idea to Allied Stores Corp. (owner of Bon Marche), then persuaded the Equitable Life Assurance Society to buy $6,000,000 worth of mortgages to help finance a super shopping center...
...Missouri, Republicans hoped that the Binaggio murder would help out Forrest Donnell, who was opposed by Truman-blessed Emery Allison. But Republicans were uneasy about the safety of Indiana's Capehart and Wisconsin's Wiley, frankly worried about Iowa's Hickenlooper and Colorado's Eugene Millikin...
Candidates for the Class of '51 are: Helen Barbara Bernstein, Sheila Alice Brown, Baila Judith Coren, Barbara Anne Higgins, and Alico Dianne Wertz; for the Class of '52: Judith Grose, Allison Ann Mathews, and Priscilla Smith; for the Class of '53: Elizabeth Ann Brown, Janet Kathryn McNeill, and Renee S. Michelson...
From Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., G.M. bought a 40-passenger two-engined Convair 240, the same plane now flying many commercial routes. G.M. will equip the plane with two 2,750 h.p. turboprop engines developed by G.M.'s Allison division...