Capably busy at the switch boards, women.

Down in the basement buying and selling bargains in marked-down summer frocks, women.

Up under the roof, posting ledgers, auditing accounts, attending to all the complex bookkeeping of a great metropolitan department store, women.

Behind most of the counters on all the floors between, women.

At every cashier's desk, at the wrappers' desks, running back and forth with parcels and change, short-skirted women.