Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Empty Shelves. The nation's department store sales were well below 1948 (off 11% for the week ending July 30). But some of the drop seemed to be the retailers' own fault. The Wall Street Journal took a shopping tour of 15 cities and found that many a...
The 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...
The subcommittee found no reason why service stores should be exempt from excise taxes, ordered the stores to start collecting the tax. It also ordered the armed services to: 1) abolish all commissaries by Jan. 1, wherever adequate civilian facilities are available; 2) cut out all special orders; 3) keep...
Nothing that reached the screen last week seemed nearly so exciting to cinemagoers as the off-screen crisis in the life & love of one of the cinema's top-ranking stars. In an announcement from Rome, Actress Ingrid Bergman, drawn and upset, told the world that she was quitting...
Ingrid had teetered on her celluloid pedestal last spring when headlines carried reports of a superheated romance with Italian Cinemaster Roberto (Paisan, Open City] Rossellini. Ingrid's husband, Swedish Dr. Peter Lindstrom, rushed to see the pair in Italy. Ingrid and Rossellini stopped work on a movie and went...