Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan proves good for A. & P., it should be better for MacDonald. Plaid stamps already are in use in 2,700 A. & P. stores, and 15,000 other retailers have been signed up in 29 states, although, in deference to A. & P., Plaid is taking on no more grocers. Some retailers argue that the fast-spreading use of stamps is destroying their competitive appeal. "They don't give an edge any more," says one grocer. "They just let you keep up with the competition. But it will be years before we can get rid of them, if ever." Benignly...
Wartime Climate. Yet for those refugees who do arrive, France is proving a cheerless asylum. A year ago. Jean Clement, 62, owned a 600-acre farm in Algeria. Today he is a grocer in Montpellier on the verge of bankruptcy. Complaining that his store is boycotted because he is a pied-noir (European of Algeria), Clement says angrily: "My father was killed at Verdun. I helped liberate France in 1944. I'm as good a Frenchman as anyone in Montpellier, but the animosity of the local population is terrible...
...Winthrop Professorship of History, commemorating the family that produced the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony-went to a second-generation American who made his formidable reputation chronicling somewhat later waves of immigration. Harvard's first Winthrop historian: Pulitzer Prizewinner Oscar (The Uprooted) Handlin, 46, a Brooklyn grocer...
...stirred the Kaiser's dreams of empire more than a pretty, blue-eyed American of good family and Protestant piety named Mary Esther Lee. After combing many volumes of letters she sent home from Europe, Alson Smith concluded that this daughter of a rich Manhattan grocer (and his own great-aunt) was the Kaiser's mistress. The course of modern German history might have been much different, he argues, if this American had not turned into a German nationalist...
Little boys are not much good at keeping things from their mothers. Sure enough, after his mother questioned him, Tomas told her the truth. She put on her coat and marched him to the store and made him return the quarter. The grocer said, "Here-let him keep...