Payroll costs and margins squeeze department stores
The piece notes payrolls in department stores exceed 50 percent of sales after merchandise costs, with many stores losing money in the first half of the year. It cites a National Retail Goods Association survey of 228 stores, showing margins frozen and profits down from last year, amid rising wages and expenses. It also mentions rising frozen food popularity, stock turnover declines, and increased markdowns as core issues.
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Controllers’ Congress
Thelr National Retary Goods Association
Huch
Raymond F Copes
Congress
Maplewood PTA Opens Year With Plans And Funds
Maplewood PTA held its first meeting of the school year on a Tuesday evening. Attendees heard reports from officers and committees outlining October activities, a fall festival, TV effects talk, a paper sale, and planned dances while detailing building fund donations and school grounds improvements.
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Britain
Schoo
West River Road
Maplewood Pta
T F Struck
Eugene Lehman
Morris
Arnold Keller
Vern Davis
Davis Wall
Wade Worcester
Ways and Imeans
Lous Reiter
C R Woodings
William Boyd
Ernest Good- Site
Howard Haskins
Russell
Johnson
Arthur Engle
Russell Speigelbert
W H . Chambers
Harold House
Building Fund
National
Chicago
Columbus
McGee
Maplewood School
Nellie Harnis
W .H. Chambers
Veterinarian to Join Wooster Staff October 15
Dr William D Pounden, former Ohio ABSI scientist and USDA Beltsville expert, will join the Ohio Station Wooster on October 15 as associate chairman of veterinary science. He returns after leading mastitis studies, joining chair L L Rummell and colleagues in a new veterinary building planned with state funds.
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Wwvsler
William D Pouden
Ohio
US Department of Agrculture
Ibelisville
Wooster
BE H Edgington
Veterinary Science
Fordyce Ely
General Assembly
U S Measures Against Czechs Seen Hurting More Than Realized
President Truman chastised Czech envoy Vladimir Prochazka for not exchanging a friendly greeting and pressed for the release of AP correspondent William N. Oatis. The article notes Western measures limiting trade have troubled the communists, with signs of unrest and asylum cases among Czech workers.
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U. S
Truman
United States
Vladimir Prochazka
White House
Czechoslovakia
Mir Truman
Pruecazka
State Department
Dean Acheson
CzechjOlslovakia
William N. Oatis
Associated Press
Prague
Prochazka
Washington
Europe
Moscow
Germany
Free World
Russia
Brunei Surplus Highlighted. Wallpaper Origins Noted
Brunei, an oil rich British protectorate on Borneo's north coast, is cited by the National Geographic Society as having a sizable cash surplus after expenditures. The National Geographic Society notes wallpaper was first used in the 1500s as a poor man's substitute for tapestries and velvet hangings in wealthy homes.
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Brunei
Borneo
National Geographic Society
Nature Cures Doctors Will Tell You
A brief note asserts God and Nature heal, praising natural methods. It claims medical practitioners increasingly rely on nature for cures and mentions a “nature mold growth” for Penteillig and raw onions killing bacteria, suggesting many more MAIRS CUT RATE remedies.
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God
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Uranc
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Cornell University
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Chronicle-Telegram
Mother Nature
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Love Brothers
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