Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week John Hartford and the Burgers dropped into a busy A & P on Main Street in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mr. John, who insists that every single item in the A & P carry a price mark, poked around looking for the tags and crayon marks. He told Manager William Smith (27 years with the A & P) a joke to put him at ease. "A fellow was stamping on prices," said John, "and I asked him how he was coming. Says he: 'Well, I got 500 cans of beans and found 700 termites. I'm having a hard time...
...guests had never met the bride & groom before, and were invited only because they were customers of Glagovsky's Haverhill Shoe Novelty Co. (bows, buckles and ornaments). After Glagovsky paid the $9,200 wedding bill, he decided that $6,245 of it was a tax deductible item as an "ordinary and necessary advertising expense of the corporation...
Collector's Item...
Reports that copies of the Pontoon, now almost a collectors item, are being offered to new subscribers as bait were dally denied by members of the staff yesterday...
There was a bright side, too. Credit Man William Murray of Chicago's Goldblatt Bros., Inc. department store, whose sales were off 20%, thought his business would actually be better because he would not have to repossess so many items. "Believe me," said he, "when a buyer has to put $100 down on a $400 item, he's going to make those payments." Furthermore, Murray, and many another retailer, thought that customers would be coming back again as soon as they got used to bigger installment payments...