Word: coops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complex, the moderate-sized (10,000 sq. ft.) store will be the chief market not only for the 1,870-apartment development but also for surrounding tenement blocks. Its key asset, however will be its owner-customers, some of whom were enlisted by teen-agers selling $5 shares. The coop, says Miss Walker, 42, a practicing Harlem attorney, is the first Harlem store in which "the community has a vested interest." Cash Rebate. That interest is green as well as black. The supermarket aims to reward its customers with an annual cash rebate on their purchases (perhaps $50 for every...
...draws $55 a month for disability; the kids are good for $156 more in AFDC; a vegetable garden and a chicken coop housing about 30 Leghorns take care of the rest. There is a TV set in the shack, and a large fray-feathered fowl refrigerator stored with home-bottled pickles, beets, scallions and ? two weeks of the month ? spareribs or ham burger. Eb wryly remarks that there are advantages to blindness: it gives him an honorable excuse for being on the dole. Since the hardwoods were lumbered off and the deep coal mines virtually gutted...
Dead Pigeon. In the Republican camp, officials were concerned that Johnson's withdrawal would make things inestimably more difficult for their prospective nominee, Nixon. "We had a pigeon," said a Nebraska Republican, referring to Johnson, "and he flew the coop." Indeed, a quickie Louis Harris Poll, taken in the first two days after the President's announcement, showed Nixon runnning behind all of the likely Democratic candidates. Kennedy led Nixon 41% to 35%; McCarthy led 39% to 33%, after trailing Nixon by 9% a month back; and Humphrey...
...publicity now have given it the de facto leadership of the conservation movement. Full of brilliant pictures by photographers like Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter--plus redolent quotes from Thoreau or Robinson Jeffers--its "Exhibit Format" books and paperbacks are selling quickly. Brower has edited most of them. The Coop can't keep Sierra Club posters in stock. The Club counts a growing number of allies in Congress. And since a run-in with Internal Revenue over its tax-exempt status, its membership has been growing by almost 1000 a month, "probably." Brower says, "because anyone who gets in trouble...
Zavelle predicted the Coop will gross about $15.5 million in sales this year, an increase of 10 per cent over last year's $14.1 million. The gross next year, he said, will reach $16.5 to $17 million. This is the figure that Morrill said last September would justify a raise in the rebate...