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Although their coverage is spotty over the U.S., super markets do 52% of all food business in Houston, 50% in Syracuse, N.Y., 41% in Los Angeles. Some of their sales figures are enough to make an oldtime corner grocer weep. In a single two-day sale, two Big Bear stores in Columbus, Ohio attracted 50,000 customers, sold about 175 carloads of food...
...move freely about the stage, sometimes merely chatting, sometimes bursting out with hidden longings, or even "killing each other." Somehow acting integrates broken fragments of a split personality. A patient who is obsessed by death, for example, may forget his terrors when he acts the part of a grocer or salesman. The little dramas unfold as spontaneously as children playing...
Many a New York City housewife returned from her Fourth of July weekend to find that her grocer was rationing milk. There was no lack of milk for thirsty children; homes, hospitals, relief agencies got their milk deliveries as usual. But panicky mothers, fearing the milk supply would be shut off, tried to stock up. The 40% of New York's milk that goes into ice cream, butter, cheese and evaporated milk was cut to a trickle. The Dairy Farmers' Union had called a strike, choked off some 3,000,000 of New York City's normal...
...country that was New Dealish long before the New Deal, and where the labor movement is so tough that Australian-born Harry Bridges is just a pale expatriate compared to the sort they grow at home. Americans say that Menzies is like Wendell Willkie except that he won. A grocer's son and a prosperous lawyer before he went into politics, he was damned up & down under as the spokesman of the fiendish Interests, did not win labor's confidence until Australia's war production began to show results-and then only tentatively...
...thoroughly acceptable to Judge Landis, include Casey Stengel, the Bees' manager; Max C. Meyer of Brooklyn, manufacturer of Richelieu pearls; and Francis Ouimet, Boston's idol who was recently exalted to golf's brand-new Hall of Fame. With new working capital (Judge Landis had forbidden Grocer Adams to put any more sugar into the club), the Bees may sprout new wings, buzz up out of the second division for the first time in seven years...