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...toothpaste. Last week, the nation's biggest dime-store chain snatched back. Near Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, an apartment-city of some 26,000 inhabitants, F. W. Woolworth opened a self-service store where shoppers picked prepriced wares from clerkless counters, supermarket fashion, toted them in fabric baskets to wrapping and checkout counters. Customers seemed to like it, said they saved time by not having to wait for a salesgirl. Woolworth, which finds it hard to get clerks, hopes it will make it possible for existing staffs to sell more goods-and sell them faster. If it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Woolworth's Supermarket | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...program promises to tear the social and economic fabric of the country as surely as did Mexico's revolutionary land reforms. Even before the bill was passed passions blazed in capital and countryside. Near the eastern frontier, rabble-rousing organizers of the National Peasants Union announced lists of landholders marked for expropriation, and began measuring off parcels. Infuriated small farmers, swinging machetes, seized police headquarters in the village of San José Arada, wounding two cops. In Camotán, another band hacked a union leader to death and wounded five of his backers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Reform or Else | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 16, 1952 | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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