Word: shop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beverly Hills, an airlines luggage shop offered "luggage for rent" at $10 for 15 days or less...
...turned out to be quite a good solution. Springfield was chosen (though on one ballot a disgusted vote was cast for Purgatory), the voters got their new county, and Representative Lincoln got reelected. He moved to Springfield himself and set up shop as a lawyer, with something of a reputation...
...friends, and on a second count, with seducing another teenager. As the result of a judicial hearing, Happy Apodaca was thrown out of office. The jury raided gambling joints on its own, confiscated slot machines and piles of gambling paraphernalia, scared every gambler in the state into shutting up shop...
...more than 20 years, he had held various jobs with the woodworkers' union. But he had a second love-he was a Communist. Last spring, by then London district secretary for his union, Kennedy heard shop stewards' gossip about the cost of remodeling 124-year-old Clarence House for Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.* Later, he broadcast the gossip on the ABC's News of Tomorrow program; the repairs, he said, would cost about $1,000,000, or five times the sum appropriated for it by Parliament. (Minister of Works Charles Key denied that the original appropriation...
When the war began going against the Japanese, Negishi's bubble burst. Heavy Allied bombardments smashed most of his factory equipment. By war's end, the Negishi Manufacturing Co. was reduced to one dilapidated repair shop. For a while Negishi kept on trying to find orders. But times were bad. He grew disgusted, retired to his country inn in Chiba, where he found pleasant company in the inn's manager, a lissome 23-year-old girl...