Department stores congregated in the `` one hundred per cent location '', where all the transit lines converged.

The Commerce Department said seasonally adjusted sales of retail stores dropped to slightly under $18 billion in April, down 1% from the March level of more than $18.2 billion.

Macy's Department Store is located on the western corner of Herald Square ; it is one of the largest department stores in the world.

In a few cases ( e. g., Federated Department Stores, Kohl's ) this is because the retailer already issues its own credit cards, and thus already has a direct relationship with the consumers most likely to shop at its stores.

Figures from the Singapore Department of Statistics showed that there are 338 7-Eleven stores and 91 Cheers outlets in 2004.

The CR Anthony Department stores were among the largest retailers of Levi Strauss.

Some LBOs pre 2000 have resulted in corporate bankruptcy, such as Robert Campeau's 1988 buyout of Federated Department Stores and the 1986 buyout of the Revco drug stores.

Ferndale's downtown shopping area, 9 Mile Road, featured many busy, popular stores in the 1940s to 1960s, including A & P Supermarket, State Supermarket ( which later became Food Fair, and eventually Farmer Jack ), Federal Department Store, Cunningham's Drugs, Hagelstein's Bakery, F & M Drugs ( the first store in the chain ), Sanders Bakery, Western Auto, several clothing and shoe stores, Ferndale Lanes ( a 20-lane second-story bowling alley over a group of stores on 9 Mile west of Woodward ), Kresge's, Woolworth's and Neisner " dime stores.

* Department and other general merchandise stores ( 5 %)

The facility stores federal records from agencies in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska including Department of Veterans Affairs and the Internal Revenue Service.

Until the mid 1970s, anyone could walk from the Town Center to clothing stores such as Smith's Department Store & Adams Shoes, food stores such as Jones Market & Cantell's, doctor's offices, barber shops, banks such as Woronoco Savings and Third National, and two family owned drugstores ; Southwick Pharmacy & Community Drugs complete with their own lunch counters.

Broad Street is lined with luxury boutiques and department stores, including the " Garmany " of Red Bank Department Store and Urban Outfitters.

Department and other general merchandise stores ( 5 %)

Boscov's Department Store and JCPenney serve as anchor stores.

After Knox's death in 1873 the paper was sold to the widow of Sir John Arnott, MP, a former Lord Mayor of Cork and owner of Arnotts, one of Dublin's major Department stores.

Topeka as a store chain began in the late 1950s, competing with such other stores as Woolworth's, Pitusa and La New York Department Stores.

As of April 2011, Strategic Marks, LLC has obtained the ' Filene's ' trademark and plans on re-introducing the famous department store name as part of a virtual mall, along with other nostalgic stores such as The Bon Marche, The Broadway, Robinson's Department Store, Joseph Magnin, Abraham and Strauss and many others.

On February 28, 2005, Federated Department Stores, Inc. announced that they would acquire the May company in a deal that would create the nation's second largest department store chain with over 1, 000 stores and $ 30 billion in annual sales.

* Department stores-very large stores offering a huge assortment of " soft " and " hard goods ; often bear a resemblance to a collection of specialty stores.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

In a matter of months the War Department built thirty-two camps, each one accommodating fifty thousand men -- sixteen were under canvas in the South and sixteen with frame structures in the North.

Illustrations were prepared for 11 Department of the Army manuals and one Graphic Training Aid.

They would be particularly displeased with the State Department if it were the source of such reports.

One year the Department collected a file of case histories to document its argument that men in the field were paying the government's entertainment bills out of personal income.

Commerce Department officials were inclined to explain the April sales decline as a reaction from a surge of consumer buying in March.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

An inmate sued the Virginia Department of Corrections after he was denied it while members of other religions were allowed their medallions.

* – both of Young's books were commissioned by the U. S. Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense ( Installations and Environment )

The nuclear reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, and the Hanford site is now the focus of the world's largest environmental cleanup, managed by the Department of Energy under the oversight of the Washington Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Department acted as a catalyst for the admission of Africans to the University: as early as 1925 a limited number were admitted to the vacation course in African Studies.

A study from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, however, found there was no indication of population decline, and suggested, as pelt prices were not increasing, the decrease in harvest was likely due to decreasing demand, and not increasing scarcity ( where pelt prices would go up.

Approximately 500, 000 deserters were arrested in 1919 and close to 800, 000 in 1920, by troops of the ' Special Punitive Department ' of the Cheka, created to punish desertions.

In 1959 Alston estimated, in a letter to the Department of Public Works, that the conservation would cost $ 1, 500 but the funds were never acquired.

Four years later, in 1934, new Central Committee departments were established which were independent from the Department for Personnel.

The company organization of each camp had a dual-authority supervisory staff: firstly, Department of War personnel or Reserve officers ( until 1 July 1939 ), a " company commander " and junior officer, who were responsible for overall camp operation, logistics, education and training ; and secondly, ten to fourteen technical service civilians, including a camp " superintendent " and " foreman ," employed by either the Departments of Interior or Agriculture, responsible for the particular field work.

In 2000 they were the defendants in a US Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit.

Featuring the album art of S. Neil Fujita, the album contained all original compositions, almost none of which were in common time: 9 / 8, 5 / 4, 3 / 4, and 6 / 4 were used inspired by Eurasian folk music they experienced during that US State Department sponsored tour.

Ure and his partner Lawrence " Pirate " Kelly were quite profitable at their smuggling business and played hide-and-seek with the United States Customs Department for years.

However, the findings of these staff members were criticized, as they were performed mostly by economic entomologists inherited from the United States Department of Agriculture, whom many environmentalists felt were biased towards agribusiness and tended to minimize concerns about human health and wildlife.

After the proper facilities had been built and the personnel hired to make such a change, the U. S. Department of Agriculture issued an injunction and refused to allow Creekstone to buy the kits necessary to test.

Critics, including the Center of Biological Diversity and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, were concerned the jaguar was being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is to be built along many of the cat's typical crossings between the United States and Mexico.

Most of the barangay roads are unpaved village-access roads built in the past by the Department of Public Works and Highways ( DPWH ), but responsibility for maintaining these roads have now been devolved to the Local Government Units ( LGUs ).

Bradfield of the NSW Department of Public Works, the bridge was designed and built by British firm Dorman Long and Co Ltd of Middlesbrough

However, since the majority of hauling is done on the interstate system, the vast majority of trucks and trailers made in the U. S. are built to the specifications of the Department of Transportation ( DOT ), which governs the use of the interstate system.

Among the federal developments was the Pentagon, built during World War II as the headquarters for the Department of Defense.

He established the " Yale System " of teaching, with few lectures and fewer exams, and strengthened the full-time faculty system ; he also created the graduate-level Yale School of Nursing and the Psychiatry Department, and built numerous new buildings.

A new civil and forensic hospital was built on the East Campus by the District of Columbia Department of Mental Health and opened in the spring of 2010, housing approximately 297 patients.

Designed by Leslie Martin, Peter Moro and Robert Matthew from the LCC's Architects ' Department and built by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts for London County Council.

Commerce Department regulations virtually required pilots to have flown in the military to acquire sufficient flight hours, and until the 1970s, the U. S. Air Force and Navy barred women from flying, thus also preventing them from moving into commercial piloting Despite women being trained by the US Army Air Corps and flying every advanced military aircraft the US built ( including every bomber, pursuit plane, and the first jet ) during WWII as Women Airforce Service Pilots ( WASP ), this program was disbanded in December 1944 and commercial jobs were not generally available to women, though these highly trained women flew as instructors and pilots for flying services throughout the United States.

Assigned the military construction mission on 1 December 1941 after the Quartermaster Department struggled with the expanding mission, the Corps built facilities at home and abroad to support the U. S. Army and Air Force.

The Indiana Department of Transportation built a new route for U. S. Highway 231, which places that highway within of Santa Claus.

Additional county government facilities have been built or expanded throughout Lake County, including the Coroner's Office, Health Department / Community Health Center facilities, Division of Transportation, Public Works and Winchester House.

It was never built, and the New Jersey Department of Transportation proposed widening all of Route 45 into a four-lane divided highway ; only a small portion in northern Gloucester County was widened.

Other government agencies, such as the National Park Service, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and the United States Weather Bureau, built facilities at King Salmon.

So under a joint use agreement with the military, the Los Angeles Department of Airports, now called Los Angeles World Airports, built a 9, 000 square foot ( 800 m² ) terminal on leased land that opened in 1971, creating present day LA / Palmdale Regional Airport which the City of Palmdale has taken control of in an effort to establish reliable air service in the region.

The Greens persuaded the Department of Transportation to add a Fort De Soto leg and contributed the land on which it was to be built, thus assuring themselves of land access to their proposed Tierra Verde.

The Police Department has built a solid partnership with the community and hosts a number of programs throughout the year which enhance the bond between citizens and the police department including C. E. R. T.

Pontoon Beach has built a new City Hall and Police Department in the last three years, and more hotels, restaurants, and gas stations have been also built.

Also, a new Fire Department and Ambulance building was recently built, which is manned by volunteers.

The town has its own fire department, KVFD ( Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department ), and its own church and cemetery, built in the 1830s.

As part of the state's trend to incorporate this age level within the public schools, the city school system joined with the City's Parks Department in the development of Hornet Park, a dual-use facility built on the grounds of the former Olympia Club ( a private swimming / recreation club ).