Word: floristers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colors to indicate right and left turns; the idiot's delight rally, which requires the driver to remove all his sparkplugs (or something similar), carry them around the car, and then replace them; the scoreboard rally, which demands a count of every supermarket, etc. on the right and every florist shop, etc. on the left; and the landmark rally, which requires a right (left) turn at every mail box or gas station, or whatever...
...change in super-marketing is not in functional display, but in new lines. To a conventional grocery in Keansburg, N.J.. Shield is now building a 20,000-sq-ft. addition that will sell only nonfood items. With one shopping cart the housewife can move from hardware to florist, from drugs to dry goods. In addition to women's and children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round-the-clock vending...
...Local florists gave varied comments on the issue. The proprietor of the Brattle Square Florist Shop said that there was no shortage, pointing to the piles of Christmas greens around his shop. Others said that though now they had fairly large stocks there would be a definite shortage in the next few days. They also admitted that the prices would rise significantly...
...bulletproof car, the sawed-off shotgun, and the one-way ride* were either inaugurated or raised to their ultimate refinement in Chicago. Such blood-spattered tableaux as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the killing of Gangster Dion O'Banion in a fern bank in his florist shop, glamoured up in Chicago's Front Page newspaper tradition, shocked and thrilled a generation of Americans and Europeans...
Petal Pusher. In St. Louis, Mail Order Florist John T. Southwell was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $1,600 after federal agents discovered that the "blue rose" which had grossed him $700,000 in 18 months was a common red rose which fades to a bluish color as it dies...