Word: checkout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Credited with some 70 hours of flight time, slim Rosina Quarles, blue-yondering wife of the Deputy Secretary of Defense and grandma of seven, got her pilot's wings and second-looey bars in the Civil Air Patrol. Expecting her checkout as a CAP search pilot, Aviatrix Quarles owned up to one frustration: "I'd like to fly jets, but my husband...
FIRST U.S. SUPERMARKET in a Communist country proved such a thumping success at Zagreb Fair that Yugoslav government's export-import agency will buy the market's refrigerator display cases, prepackaging equipment, shopping carts and checkout stands for about $30,000, use them to start supermarkets of its own. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslavs trooped through U.S. supermart during 15-day fair...
...Lamont will immediately begin to meet the needs of the students it serves, the statement is a good omen to those who must use its facilities. The financial problem represents a sizable stumbling-block, but could be partially overcome if students were allowed to replace regular employees at the checkout desks during the extended hours. Many job-seeking undergraduates would welcome the chance to work at times when classes do not meet...
Closing desk three and using student help at checkout desks may lower Lamont's operating costs considerably. If this saving can justify extension of Library hours, the studious undergraduate may soon happily view acres of neon gleaming through Lamont's glass walls...
...proof that he was looking at himself. J.S. stuck out his tongue: the face in the mirror did the same. But J.S. simply could not recognize himself or his wife. This caused trouble, when, for instance, they took different aisles in the supermarket and agreed to meet at the checkout. Since then. J.S. rarely speaks (especially to a lady) until he is spoken to. He would have the same trouble with his children, but they are young enough to be noisy, and he can usually tell them by their voices...