Word: shop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed among world department stores is Harrods, of London. Here shop Britain's King and Britain's Queen. Here come Her Majesty of Spain, Her Majesty of Belgium, many a Lord and many a Lady. Not quite so large as Selfridge's, Harrods admits no superior in quality, in clientele. Head of Harrods is Sir Woodman Burbidge, Bart., C.B.E., member of Royal Automobile, Royal Thames Yacht, Ranelagh clubs, Commandeur de l'Ordre de Leopold II of Belgium. Solemn, dignified, impeccable, Harrods last week published in the New York Times and the London Times a series...
...that 'Five Men of Frankfort' is a poor book, but it is not, and perhaps does not strive to be a complete history of the great banking house which grew out of the little shop in the Frankfort Judengasse. For the average reader, neither a student of the period, nor one more than ordinarily interested in the history of the amazing growth to power of the House of Rothschild, for one who wishes to get some light on its development and influence, Mr. Ravage's book is well designed, and, so far as it goes, essentially correct...
...Ringing door bells" may, in the case of the Fuller Brush salesman, or the automobile salesman, consist actually of ringing door bells and asking people if they will buy; in the case of the salesman of dye stuffs it will consist of calling on the purchasing agents, shop superintendents, and others who are using and buying dye stuffs. In the case of the salesman of suspension bridges it will mean carefully examining the map of the territory for possible business and calling on the county and state commissioners. Much has been said of that indefinable personality which a salesman should...
...course, one vital requirement of men who would succeed in production work is the ability to handle men as well as to handle the processes. Leadership ability, when properly combined with technical skill, is, in my opinion, the most essential attribute of the successful shop superintendent or plant manager...
...Queen Mary, accompanied by Princess Mary and the 60-year-old Princess Victoria, the King's sister, descended at Bognor upon the local Woolworth's threepenny and sixpenny shop...