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Biggest chain store in Pennsylvania out-side of A. & P. is America Stores Co. with about 1,743 of its 2,776 units in the State. It has a heavy concentration of stores in & around Philadelphia, its home town. Founded in 1917 as a merger of five old chains, ASCO was ruled until last spring by Samuel Robinson, a chain-store pioneer who started in 1891 with Vice President Robert H. Crawford and joint capital of $1,400. He now divides his time between Bryn Mawr and Pasadena, goes in for philanthropy in a quiet way, showering funds on Philadelphia...