Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars come honking down a narrow street usually disturbed only by the clump of a cart or a delivery boy's whistle, and men in leather coats and caps, or in ill-fitting tradesmen's suits, knock on the door of the big red brick house. A grocer who is now a Deputy of France lets them in, where they find their leader munching on a breakfast of bread and a tangerine...
...barrel-fat grocer named Jean Damasio made a parliamentary shambles of France's Chamber of Deputies last week...
...taught her son all she could, she persuaded Diamantina's Roman Catholic seminary to take him as a pupil at a reduced tuition fee. On his first day of school, Juscelino, then eleven, put on his first pair of shoes, bought with money earned as a grocer's errand boy. Recalls one of his seminary teachers: "I never saw such a remarkable memory in a child. He could recite an entire page by heart after reading it once. He was not what I would call deep, but he certainly was bright...
...Balance. In Pittsburgh, after George Shook, 32, pleaded guilty to robbing Grocer Norman F. Krell of $55 at gunpoint, Krell persuaded Judge Walter P. Smart to put Shook on probation because, "He's still one of my best customers...
Rasmussen. For his money, Weston will become the third biggest grocer on the North American continent, with $1.3 billion annual sales and 1,025 stores (712 National Tea stores, 313 in Weston's Loblaw chain) in 14 U.S. states and Canada. Only A.& P. and Safeway Stores are bigger. For Capitalist Cuneo, who bought 348,000 shares ten years ago at about $5 a share, the deal was a bonanza. By selling all but 5,000 shares at a reported price of $60 a share, Cuneo made a profit estimated at nearly $20 million...