Word: shop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Find. The planes made 20 flights the first day, 50 the next, 60 the next. At times they were stacked five deep over sandbars waiting for landings. Tents, fires, laboring men spread along eight miles of riverbank. A trapper's wife opened a coffee shop in a tent. A clothing store sprang up in another. Old prospectors, panning methodically after thawing the frozen ground with fires, found traces of gold dust. But they found nothing else...
When the Taft-Hartley Act banned the closed shop from union contracts, the International Typographical Union figured out a simple dodge. The printers refused to renew their contracts, but insisted that publishers agree instead to informal "conditions of employment" which actually kept the closed shop in operation. Many newspapers agreed; the Chicago publishers refused, and the I.T.U. struck. To test the legality of the printers' policy, the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association filed separate suits against the I.T.U. before the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, six weeks after the Chicago publishers...
...inconspicuousness, both inside and out, has been the principal feature of the shop ever since one Arthur E. La Flamme first opened its doors and started cutting hair as the fashions of November, 1898, dictated. The enterprising founder, mindful of the French maxim "Cherchez la femme," saw how conveniently his name lent itself to the obvious pun. Hence "Cherchez La Flamme," which, as the years passed, was shortened to a simple "La Flamme...
...original proprietor ran his shop until his death in 1930; his wife continued on as general manager and cashier until 1941, when Nicholas Lombardi, who had been working there for 20 years already, and John Capolupo bought the shop. This pair still heads the staff of barbers...
...same holds true for the customers. "Once they come, they keep coming back," Lombardi points out. He likes to think of his patrons as more "dignified" than the usual customer. Some of them have been going to his shop for as long as 40 years and in at least two cases four generations of a family have taken their business to La Flamme's. It is this informal, one-big-happy-family atmosphere which brings people back and which prompts old grads to revisit La Flamme's whenever they happen to be around Boston...