Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's perspiring millions. "I can't eat in the day and I wriggle about with one sheet all night," moaned a a little suburban housewife. "Cahn't work. Cahn't sleep. And your margarine melts before you get it 'ome from the grocer's," groaned a Cockney lady in the Underground...
...Most of the merchants in Newburyport, Mass., who had started it all, abandoned their program to refund 10% on all retail purchases. So did Newburyport's imitators across the nation. Merchants called it all a mistake. In the last eddy of the wave kicked up by Newburyport, a grocer in Byington, Tenn. posted invoice prices on his goods, let his customers decide the markup. They decided 20%, which was his normal markup, was about right. His business improved. But by & large, price-cutting had ceased to be the exciting catchword for a nationwide crusade...
...when Miguel Aléman Sr., a grocer in the steaming Vera Cruz village of Sayula, took up arms against Dictator Porfirio Diaz, the wind that was to sweep Mexico was hardly a breeze. The next year the Revolution burst forth and churned the country in bitter, bloody civil war. But the Sayula grocer always managed to come out on the right side. He became a general. After the manner of Mexican generals, he also became prosperous. The Aléman family moved to Mexico City...
...partners bought fine houses and cars. They started buying real estate just in time to cash in on Mexico City's real-estate boom. Five years after leaving the university, the grocer's boy was rich...
...subject: "How to Live on $90 a Month"), run a library in the recreation hall, sponsor dances, publish the Spartan Wives' News. With their Spartan husbands, they operate a cooperative store that has cut food prices 8 to 10%, saves the wives a mile walk to the nearest grocer or butcher...