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Word: hardwareman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...business succeed, so is he invaluable to civic projects. Republic Steel's President Thomas F. Patton, Detroit Edison's President Walker L. Cisler, Chairman Laurence Whittemore of New England papermaker Brown Co., give anywhere from 10% to 30% of their time to civic projects. In Los Angeles, Hardwareman-Banker Vic Carter was so busy that he either had to cut down his civic activities or his business. His choice: to sell his Builders Emporium, a popular, Sears-like operation for do-it-yourselfers, so he could devote more time to community affairs. In Denver President Joseph Ross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVICMINDED EXECUTIVES: Time and Talent Means More Than Money | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...Nellie runs off to Chicago with a slick Hardware-Store Owner Hugh Marlowe and dies in a train accident; 2) the shop burns down, and Wayne builds a new four-chair shop with an electric rotation barber pole; 3) brash young Benny Halper (Tommy Morton) grows up and marries Hardwareman Marlowe's red-haired daughter Eadie (Helene Stanley), joins her in a vaudeville song & dance team, falls in with Prohibition mobsters and is bumped off; 4) the town booms and so does Wayne's barbershop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 21, 1952 | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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