Word: brims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bland wears a bright blue fishing hat with the brim rolled up all the way around. He carries a Daily News under his arm and smiles broadly as he lectures on the topic...
...coming into our stores to pick up entry blanks," says Robert O. Jones, national director of catalogue sales for the giant retailing chain. Sears expected about 15,000 entries. But envelopes began pouring in to the Sears Tower in Chicago; then came huge canvas mailbags, each stuffed to the brim with 1,000 snapshots. In just two days in mid-April, the company received a total of more than 50,000 snapshots. "It seems like we got a lot from small towns," says Jones. "Florida was big, big, big. I don't know, maybe it's because there...
...chains wait to be sorted. Cardboard boxes over-flow with gold cigarette cases and compacts; walls of shelves are full of antique silver candlesticks and saltcellars: pails are awash in silver quarters and dimes. In one room in the Empire Trading Service, 30 coffee cans sit filled to the brim with gold teeth, crowns and inlays...