Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they lose one it makes no difference." He grumped over the lack of service in the furniture department ("Looks like the Maine woods"), chewed out a salesman in the shirt department for not being quick enough. He had one word - "awful" - for some orange-colored vases on sale on the eighth floor, and viewed with disdain the incandescent ladies' stockings displayed on the main floor: "That's not my idea of what gals should put on their gams...
...sale throughout Moscow were 325,000 freshly cut Siberian fir yolki (formerly Christmas but now New Year's trees), plus another 100,000 artificial trees and 200 boxcars of tinsel, lights and colored balls. Lavishly decorated trees appeared by the hundreds in restaurants, shops, public buildings and even in the Kremlin's Tainitsky Garden. State stores advertised "everything for the New Year's tree." On the streets, resplendent in long white beards and bright red suits, dozens of Grandfather Frosts exacted kopeks from the crowds...
...uncleanable. "It would be like trying to take the smoke smell out of smoked herring," he said. Much of the less-damaged merchandise will be sold to other retailers, who last week deluged Neiman-Marcus with offers. Marcus, who sniffs at the idea of a Neiman-Marcus fire sale, hopes only that his damaged goods are finally sold "a long distance from Dallas...
...Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions, served mainly to display the panoramic flexibility of the Washington Square stage, a genuflection to physical plant rather than inner spirit. The third selection, S. N. Behrman's But For Whom Charlie, was like buying Broadway goods at a fire sale; Behrman is now 71 years old, and Charlie is, in fact, an old man's play, a drawing-room harangue about a great deal in the contemporary world that Behrman finds most offensive...
...Prices have spiraled, the black market flourishes and queues for food are an everyday sight in Cairo. Last week, faced with the unpleasant fact that a measure of austerity is the inescapable price of a crash development scheme, the government took the drastic step of banning the slaughter and sale of meat three days out of each week. It's back to corn and beans for the Egyptians on Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, though tourist hotels will still be allowed to serve meat daily. Violators could get up to one year in jail. To ease the shortage, the government...