The retail operation was founded by David Mann in 1945, three years after the Pentagon opened, as a watch repair shop.

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"It's just tragic, " uncle David Mann told the CNN affiliate.

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"Investors have finally got the idea of what it really means to have seriously different type of recovery than what we have seen in post-World War II history, " says David Mann, head of research in the Americas for Standard Chartered Bank.

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