The buoyant figures were at odds with reports from business groups suggesting sales were strong again for the US-style Black Friday event but that trade earlier in the month was soft, partly because mild weather had hurt winter clothing sales.
T/Q set: Soil less than 75 cm deep soil reddish or yellowish grey, loam sand to sandy loam over soft weathering acid rock.
The light minerals, consisting mostly of quartz and feldspar, are the hardest and most resistant, whereas the dark minerals, which are mostly biotite mica and hornblende, are softer and weather out faster.
Merion has proven to be a beast of a set-up after predictions that wet weather and soft conditions would turn the championship into a dart board.
In that soft, blurry weather, people slept with their windows open; it was a small town and they weren't afraid.
There is a definite throb of patriotic feeling for this place in that phrase "soft English weather" but what follows is not at all kitsch or sentimental.
First, a carver selected a tall, wide log of Western red cedar, whose soft wood weathers well.
J.P. Morgan did stress, however, that "the diversity of its product chains, its ability to translate low-cost commodity production into integrated specialty profits, its rapidly improving balance sheet, its range of options to return cash to the shareholder through dividends and share repurchase position [Dow] well to weather softer patches in the global economy.
"The mix, which is often used on roads in the UK that have over 1,200 vehicles a day, isn't that durable - it can go slick and soft in hot weather - but it's easy to repair," he says.
The town's huge soft dunes, warm weather and strong steady winds were ideal for testing and perfecting their strange flying apparatus.
