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...kernel is sound. A young man who lives and breathes only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...
...prosperity of chain stores continues to be the admiration and despair of most other lines of trade and industry. For the calendar year of 1924, the F.W. Woolworth Co. showed net, after depreciation and taxes of $20, 669,397, $7.95 on each of its present 2,600,000 common shares, or $31.80 on its 650,000 shares of old stock, upon which $31.84 was earned in 1923. Woolworth has assets totaling $92,422,858, compared with...
...today, and tomorrow, will go on sale. The Business School will prevent that. Its surveys are already in the field. Within a week it will know how many eggs are missing west of the Mississippi. It will calculate when these missing eggs would ordinarily go on sale at certain chain-restaurants. It will know how many flue pullets were eternally dissuaded from saying. It will compute how much money changed pockets during the darkness of the eclipse, and how much the great stores of Boston generously contributed to science by letting their employees free at the time...
Youthful Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., able, active scion of an able, active line, whilom Hearstling, who in 1923 branched out from running the national news service that bears his name to endeavoring to establish a chain of newspapers in the U. S. (beginning with two gum-chewers' sheetlets in California [TIME, Aug. 20, 1923]), last week made a loud announcement...
...cuadrilla there are positions to be won. First, that of the picador who, dressed in chain-mail up to the waist, has but to goad the bull with a sharpened lance, keeping his horse's blind-folded eye toward the beast until it charges, gores the horse, and gives the picador time to be dragged over the arena's paling...