Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caplin led her four children in an endless tactical retreat from one shabby rented house to the next. She worked out complicated trade agreements with butchers and merchants, refused to deal with a grocer who would not hire one of her three sons, and charmed bakers into parting with stale bread. She summoned up an awesome queenliness when facing unpaid and threatening landlords. There were times when she went out, late at night, and rummaged through neighbors' ash barrels for fragments of usable coal...
Night at Charlie's. One evening, a fortnight ago, the Grand Dragon of the South Carolina Klan, a Leesville (S.C.) grocer named Thomas L. Hamilton, assembled a mob of his men on a road near Myrtle Beach. With an electrically lighted cross shining on the lead car, 26 automobile loads of Kluxers rolled through the Negro section of town. Most of the colored population was terrified, but one bold Negro telephoned the police that there would be bloodshed if the Klan came back...
...show. Then Morrison left town, and Bohn's United Circus never showed. But Wetumka decided to have a celebration, anyway. It declared a "Sucker Day," during which Boy Scouts will serve the 100 Ibs. of hot dogs from booths in the middle of Main Street. Said the grocer who bought them: "That guy sure could talk...
Some of the rises could be blamed on scare buyers. Last week, hoarding housewives still roamed the nation's stores and markets, snatching up prizes. In Boston, sirloin steak went to $2 a pound. In Washington, a psychology-minded grocer put a sign out front: "Special: 5 Pounds Sugar, 98 cents"-just twice the price at the store across the street. By closing time, clamoring customers had bought 1,000 Ibs. In Allegan, Mich., a man asked to exchange a bag of badly caked sugar, confessed he had 250 pounds more just like it that he had hoarded from...
...whole nation had the air of a man waiting. The economy twitched a little, nervously. With reflexes conditioned by World War II, consumers started a rush on cars, tires, nylons, washing machines and refrigerators, soap and even toilet paper. (A Chillicothe, Mo. man wrote his grocer: "Give me 100 pounds of sugar before those hoarders...