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...course opened on June 16 and during the first week the work consisted of the study of instruments and preliminary compass and chain surveying. During the next three weeks plane and topographical surveying was studied and a complete contour map made of 15 acres of representative country. Railroad surveying was taken up the last four weeks of the camp, each student mapping out an imaginary railroad three miles long and computing the curves and grades. The best of the plans was selected and the railroad was staked out ready for construction...
...understood that it is Mr. Vanderbilt's ambition to start a chain of newspapers throughout the country, of which this is the first...
...astonishing success of the low-price chain store companies has led S. S. Kresge, President of the S. S. Kresge Co., to organize the Kresge Department Stores, Inc., with a capital of $25,000,000 cumulative preferred 7% stock, and 200,000 common shares of no-par value. This Company will take over the L. S. Plaut Co. department store in Newark, as the first of a chain of such stores across the country...
Merrill, Lynch & Co. have been foremost in financing seven large chain store systems?S. S. Kresge & Co., the McCrory Stores Company, the Acme Tea Company, Jones Brothers Tea Company, J. C. Penney Company, G. R. Kinney & Company, the Melville Shoe Company. These companies operate about 2,000 stores, whose total sales in 1922 exceeded...
...Kresge initiated the new department store chain on his 56th birthday. He began his career as a school-teacher at $22 a month, and after having been successively insurance agent, furnishings salesman, department store bookkeeper, tin-plate salesman, he went into business for himself with a capital of $8,000 with J. G. McCrory?now head of another large store system. From a single store in Detroit, the Kresge stores have expanded to a system of 223 stores throughout the country, which last year handled $65,000,000 of goods...