Macy's

Macy's
Author: Robert M. Grippo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Department stores
ISBN: 9780757002120

Macy*s: The Store. The Star. The Story traces a hundred and fifty years of one of the country's premier retailers. The story begins with Rowland Macy's colorful roots in Massachusetts. It then details the founding of the store, including the innovative advertising and pricing practices that made the fledgling business stand out from its competitors. Later chapters describe how Macy's made history by being the first retailer to promote a woman to an executive position, how Isidor and Nathan Straus created the beautiful flagship store on Herald Square, how the once-cluttered lower level became the famous Cellar, and much more. Throughout, lively text, rare photographs, and colorful illustrations highlight the people and events--the trends, tragedies, and traditions--that transformed Macy's from a modest storefront into the world's largest store. - Publisher.

Milly and the Macy's Parade

Milly and the Macy's Parade
Author: Shana Corey
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0439297540

Milly, a spirited little girl, envisions a way to bring a bit of her family's old country festivities to their new home in America. Featuring artwork by the illustrator of the Lemony Snicket books, this heartwarming fictional tale is based on the true history of the first Macy's Parade in 1924 and evokes the pride of what it means to be an American. "An entertaining and lively variation on holiday stories." - School Library Journal

Factory Man

Factory Man
Author: Beth Macy
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316231568

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.

Mrs.

Mrs.
Author: Caitlin Macy
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316434175

In the well-heeled milieu of New York's Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Despite a shadowy past, Philippa has somehow married the scion of the last family-held investment bank in the city. And although her wealth and connections put her in the center of this world, she refuses to conform to its gossip-fueled culture. Then, into her precariously balanced life, come two women: Gwen Hogan, a childhood acquaintance who uncovers an explosive secret about Philippa's single days, and Minnie Curtis, a newcomer whose vast fortune and frank revelations about a penurious upbringing in Spanish Harlem put everyone on alert. When Gwen's husband, a heavy-drinking, obsessive prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office, stumbles over the connection between Philippa's past and the criminal investigation he is pursuing at all costs, this insulated society is forced to confront the rot at its core and the price it has paid to survive into the new millennium. Macy has written a modern-day House of Mirth, not for the age of railroads and steel but of hedge funds and overnight fortunes, of scorched-earth successes and abiding moral failures. A brilliant portrait of love, betrayal, fate and chance, Mrs. marries razor-sharp social critique and page-turning propulsion into an unforgettable tapestry of the way we live in the 21st Century. "Mrs. could be the next Big Little Lies."-EW "Macy skewers power parents in this entertaining, sharp-eyed portrayal of privilege and it's price"-People Magazine

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Author: Robert M. Grippo
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738535623

"Let's have a parade" is the phrase that begins a beloved American tradition, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1924, employees of the R. H. Macy and Company store in Herald Square, many of whom were immigrants and first-generation Americans, chose to give thanks for their good fortune in a manner reminiscent of the festive parades held in their native countries. The excitement and praise from crowds lining the route that first year led Macy's to issue an immediate proclamation: the parade would become a tradition. Before the parade's first decade passed, Macy's welcomed the huge and spectacular helium character balloons that became its goodwill ambassadors. Since then, the parade has become a world-famous treasure. Through rare and historic images, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade offers readers a chance to reminisce, explore, and delight in eighty years of this thoroughly American celebration.

A Blind Corner

A Blind Corner
Author: Caitlin Macy
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2022-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316434205

From the award-winning author of Mrs. and The Fundamentals of Play comes a brilliant and biting short story collection about pride, privilege, and our nagging need to belong. In an era of “hot takes” and easy generalizations, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as it is actually lived from the American fantasy of “niceness”. In Macy’s world, human desires and fatal blind spots slam headlong into convenient, social-media-driven narratives that would sort us into neat boxes of insider or outsider; good or bad; with us or against us. Time and again, whether at home or in the age-old role of Americans abroad, Macy’s women see their good intentions turn awry. A woman who tries to do a good deed for an underprivileged child sees it go horribly wrong. A wife, attempting to be a good host to a friend’s strange ex-boyfriend, finds herself in a compromised situation. And, in the title story, a newlywed fancies herself a Euro-sophisticate until an accident reminds her just how truly foreign she really is. In tales where shocking and sometimes brutal events disabuse characters of their most cherished beliefs, Macy forgoes easy moralization in favor of uncomfortable truths that reveal the complexity of what it means to be human.

Macy's for Sale

Macy's for Sale
Author: Isadore Barmash
Publisher: Beard Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781587981722

This is a reprint of a previously published work. it is the story of Macy's managers and their leveraged buyout--then the largest in history involving a retail store.

Macy's on Parade

Macy's on Parade
Author:
Publisher: PAINTBOX PRESS
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0966943325

In seven colorful pop-up scenes, the story of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade springs to life at the turn of a page. Festive marching bands, imaginative clowns, high-flying balloons and fantastic floats are captured in vibrant and charming detail. Also contains a parade map and a tiny bag of confetti. Each book is protected inside a resealable polybag.

Macy's Treasure

Macy's Treasure
Author: Ramona Levacy
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010-12-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0557945917

"When bookworm Macy Bryant starts her senior year, she expects her biggest challenges to be taking her mother's English class and completing her SAT. Then, the new guy everyone is talking about asks Macy out for her first date ever. And why does Clark Ransom, Macy's next door neighbor and captain of the football team, seem so concerned about it? Hasn't he dated head cheerleader Melanie since freshman year, and hasn't he forgotten that Macy exists? Macy also doesn't expect to have a year so full of secrets, like the unpublished manuscript written by her deceased father found forgotten in the attic that she's afraid to ask her mother about or the disastrous date that makes Macy question whether she's just too straight-laced to be "normal." But the biggest secret of all is the one that binds Macy to Clark--and threatens to keep them apart for good. Only Macy's faith in God helps to keep her on a straight path when the challenges of high school threaten to keep her from making good choices."--Page [4] of cover.

The King of Macy's

The King of Macy's
Author: Fred Beauford
Publisher: morton books, inc
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781929188116