Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schuddered, but the fellow in the blue mackinaw crowding behind him chuckled gutturally. "That's the greatest, isn't it?" Vag condescendingly smiled his assent. Some people like that kind of verse, he thought, and moved on down the rack. A bright red card attracted him. "Because you're mine. . ."it read. Ruefully, Vag opened it. Ah, well. . . "and I am thine, life is perfect, Valentine." Maybe the fellow in the blue coat will like...
...year prewar, is now a $5 billion giant. Stores that supply kitchen furnishings have never had it so good. Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. separated its kitchen furnishings from its appliances 18 months ago, and sales rose from $35,000 a year to $90,000. The American Rack Merchandisers' Institute announced that 1953 sales of housewares in supermarkets came to $135 million, v. $113 million a year earlier. Sales of kitchen furniture last year totaled $500 million, up 8% from 1952, v. a 5% rise for all furniture sales...
...performance of Samson and Delilah in Miami, Soprano Risë Stevens' breathtaking Delilah prompted enthusiastic operagoers to rush to the lobby during intermission and rack up a new house record for the sale of binoculars...
...come not to watch bowlers but machines. As a bowler sent his ball crashing into the tenpins, the ball hit the cushion, set off an automatic switch. Almost before a spectator could say "Strike," an intricate machine swept the alley clean of pins, set them in place on a rack, dropped a second set of pins into place, and sent the ball back to the bowler. It was an impressive demonstration of the American Machine & Foundry Co.'s new automatic pinspotting machine, in operation for the first time on the West Coast. Last week Jewel City totted...
...banker, printer and publisher, sells most of France's phonograph records, runs most of the gambling houses. In all, by unofficial estimate, the government owns outright 167 companies, has an interest in 67 others. And it loses on some of them. On the railroads alone, the government will rack up a deficit of $137 million this year...