Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty years of soda business apparently have convinced the owners of Billings & Stover, oldest pharmacy in the Square, that these modern fads have no future. Destruction of the marble fountain in the Massachusetts Avenue drugstore has been completed this week to make way for an expanding prescription department...
...that Jeremiah J. Mahoney, present owner of the store, first came to work, the fountain was opened for business. Since then, the venerable establishment has maintained its conservative atmosphere, dispensing prescriptions in ever-increasing numbers and serving frappes and cherry phosphates to waiting customers...
Although admitting that "the soda business has never been better," Mahoney has been forced to take the fountain out in order to handle his greatly increased prescription trade. "We have had the confidence of our customers," said Mahoney, "and we must acknowledge...
...things Japanese unions do would make Tom Girdler scream for John L. Lewis. Japanese labor techniques grew out of the Japanese worker's effort to reconcile the paternalistic structure of Japan's industry with relatively alien class-struggle ideas. The labor-relations adventures of the Pilot Fountain Pen Co. is a microcosm of this effort...
...March, as the banker turned 25th Division infantry sergeant, returns to "Boone City" (Cincinnati) to resume the interrupted pattern of his life with his wife Milly, played by Myrna Loy. Coming back, March takes an airplane ride with Dana Andrews, an AAF captain returning to a Boone City soda fountain, and Harold Russell, an ex-sailor who has a couple of steel hooks where his elbows end. As vice-president in charge of small loans, March finds it difficult and against his nature to insist on "bankers' collateral" on every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding...