Business & Finance: Innovations

Into the chain store field last week went Innovation Trunk Co. of Manhattan, makers of wardrobe trunks. Following recent new financing, the trunk company has announced its intention of marketing its product, both wholesale and retail, through a chain of stores soon to be established in various large U. S. cities.

Ponderous, squat, ungainly were the trunks of the 1890's, trunks that grandfather and grandmother packed, trunks that still repose in many a U. S. attic. Women packed them with patient art, men loaded them with chaotic haste; bent backs and weary arms accompanied...

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