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...Angeles, a grocer on the city's outskirts whiled away time before his supper listening to his radio, heard a voice at Station KPO (San Francisco) saying: "Allen Straight is asked to communicate immediately with his father at Loveland, Colo. Straight is thought to be en route between Del Mar and San Diego." It was part of KPO's daily call for "missing people...
Although the retail grocer has the highest turnover, yet wholesalers as a class outrank retailers in this respect. The fact that all stocks of clothing and groceries turn over twice as rapidly as drugs, hardware and shoes throws considerable light on the greater success of chain store organizations of late years in just these two fields...
...currency (TIME, Apr. 6, BUSINESS). If so, he taunted, it was possible for His Majesty's Government to cut the value of wages in half by inflation, or for a Labor Government to liquidate all private property by the same means. Inflation, he said, was equivalent to a grocer juggling with his weights and measures...
Before the nodding copse, tangled in its phylacteries, her cry of guilt was the hollow hooting of a nameless bird in a field of desecration. The Kravno women of Israel lamented her madness. That such a year should come upon Serra Golda, her popular grocer-mother...
...became almost incidental. Wayside shrines, often of a rich and peculiar beauty, everywhere adorned the countryside and added to the general welfare by serving as gasoline filling-stations. The cult strongly emphasized reverence to local saints, who were all bidden by their Order to practice the trades either of grocer or of druggist; and every public conveyance bore testimony to the humble but influential ministering angels. This spiritual movement finally disposed of the economic man and even made some progress toward suppressing the economic housewife. Its importance has not yet been grasped by Abyssinian historians, but the Report does full...