Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sealed, packed boxcar, is lined up with other Russian civilians in a German railway depot. German civilians stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...
...Dough. In Freeport, ILL., Grocer Leo Fagan shut up shop, trustingly left some bread outside for possible customers, returned to find that he had been overpaid 20 cents...
...Grocer Novelist. A man writing a novel, said Mr. Trollope briskly, is comparable to a grocer weighing out tea. Mr. Trollope professed scorn for "inspiration," described how he rose at 5:30 every morning, set his watch at his elbow, and wrote without stopping until the breakfast gong brought him back to the important things of life. He always wrote, he said, at the rate of 250 words per 15 minutes...
...Lincolnshire grocer last week became one of the top dignitaries in the Church of England. Nominated by King George VI to be Bishop of London* was popular, friendly Right Rev. John William Charles Wand, 60, Bishop of Bath & Wells (TIME, Sept...
...those five years he has bought control of 80-year-old Sprague, Warner & Co. of Chicago, of Western Grocer Co., and of Marshall Canning Co. Last week for $7,000,000 he bought control of 92-year-old Reid, Murdoch & Co. and set up Consolidated Grocers Corp. to own and run his combine. He expects it to do $100,000,000 a year of the nation's $5 to $12 billion wholesale grocery business (depending on whose figures you prefer...