Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stealing from Square book stores is at a minimum this year in spite of the Coop's new self-service system, a survey made yesterday revealed...
Although the Coop text-book annex offers much more of an invitation to the would-be thief, elaborate precautionary methods have kept losses there to approximately the same as in years past...
...meet the danger of stealing, the Coop has hired many new staff members--a detective, policemen, several spotters, door watchers, and checkers...
When prospective customers enter the annex, they pass several clerks stationed to guard against the one-way entry being used as an exit. Anyone who slips out faces a policeman alerted by spotters in the Coop's second-story rear windows. While students browse through the open book stacks, a detective scans them carefully until they reach the cash registers, which are also watched by a policeman...
...member once when I wuz a kid my Dad had trouble with skunks stealin' eggs from th' hen coop. He took down his gun one day an' he shot them skunks. Made a lot o' noise, but he sure fixed 'om. Didn't have no trouble 't all after that...