Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Partners Dobbs and Hull ventured into the food business. But not long after they bought into the Toddle Houses food shops, a Southern restaurant chain, they got in a fight with other directors who opposed their system of employee profit sharing. So Hull and Dobbs set up Toddle-like restaurants in non-Toddle cities...
...Like most retailers, the Grand Leader Store of South Bend, Ind. had been bucking a deep depression in appliance sales. One week in July it sold just six refrigerators. But the following week it sold...
...difference was a little black box with a face like a parking meter's and a slot like a piggy bank's. Called the Meter-Matic, it is similar to pay-as-you-go meters used during the depression, then discarded when money began growing on trees again. The gadget is fastened atop the refrigerator and the purchaser drops in a quarter a day (or more, depending on the installment conditions); if he fails to drop the coin in the slot, the electric current shuts...
...private businessmen in peacetime. After World War II ended, the post exchanges and ships' service stores kept right on selling so many items at less than retail prices that private merchants complained loudly enough for Congress 'to hear them. Military stores, they said, were peddling luxury goods, like fur coats and watches, tax free; groceries were being sold at wholesale prices in direct competition with local merchants, and large numbers of servicemen were buying goods for civilian friends...
...strange life, recorded with more care than brilliance by Biographer Sprigge, unfolds much like a Strindberg play, except for an occasional redeeming touch of the ridiculous...