Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question now was whether retailers would have enough stocks left by Nov. 29 to supply holders of ration tickets. To many a grocer, it looked as if WPB would have to abandon its 65% roasting ceiling for a while-something that WPB has thus far flatly refused to do. Certainly something must give: if the start of rationing finds many citizens unable to use their ration tickets, the coffee comedy will cease to be funny. Such a failure might endanger the whole principle of rationing-which the people have accepted wholeheartedly thus...
...statisticians talked in a babel of tongues and it was left to the U.S. housewife to see the truth without words: the U.S. was in for trouble with the most vital of all supplies-food. She knew it from the simple evidence: her grocer's shelves and her butcher's hooks were emptying. Whether she tried, last week, to buy canned baked beans or soups or pork chops or coffee, she found she was getting up against...
Four weeks ago progressive, wavy-haired Lewis C. Shave, who heads thousands of independent grocers federated in his Nation-Wide Stores Co., told Utah grocers that Georgia courts had quickly applied that State's chain-store tax to his federation, put it out of business in the area. Said he: "These laws are not in the best interest of the independent grocer...
Unpreparedness. In Chicago, Grocer George Meister toted a pistol four years, then put it away as superfluous. Few minutes later he was robbed...
Portland's big cut-rate grocer, Fred Meyer, took his stock of champagne down from the top shelf, sold more in midsummer than he ever had at New Year's. At night the greyhound races are packed. At the same time, one Portland bank has ten times as many savings accounts as last year...