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...skyscrapers, rain-dappled, flamboyant trees, traffic jams of Fords, Chevies, Opels, Consuls, Taunuses and Vespa scooters. In the old city, hand-printed poems of amor on sale at 25? flutter from a clothespin in a dowdy doorway next to a modern furniture store whose neon sign shouts: "Use Nuestro Layaway Plan." But San Juan also has festering El Fanguito and neighboring swampland slums of stilted crackerbox shanties, partly cleared but still the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: The Bard of Bootstrap | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...fourth round, it looked for a moment or two as if Joe Louis might do it. He shuffled in, jolted Ezzard Charles with a series of stiff lefts, trying to set him up for the old layaway punch. The 22,357 fans, thinly scattered through Yankee Stadium, began to wonder: Was tired, fat, old (36) Joe Louis going to make a comeback, and heavyweight history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: They Never Come Back | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...done, Woolworth's will have transformed itself completely into a medium-price variety chain. The company has already copied many merchandising frills from its tonier competitors. The Houston store will make free deliveries of purchases over $5 and, like some other Woolworth stores, it has a "layaway" plan-a kind of charge account in reverse-under which a customer makes a down payment on a piece of merchandise, pays regular installments, but does not get the article Until it is completely paid for. The company also took another radical step (for Woolworth's) this year: it bought space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eight-Million-Dollar Baby | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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