Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...injured, though looting continued. Two nights after the flare-up, Stokes returned the Guard and an integrated police force. The Cleveland Insurance Board estimated damage from both fire and looting at a relatively low $1,000,000 to $1,500,000-a figure that does not cover small shop owners who could not obtain insurance...
...complaint against Maremont covers acquisitions dating all the way back to 1953. At that time, Maremont, which started 91 years ago as a black smith shop, was one among many small companies manufacturing or rebuilding replacement parts for automobiles. President Arnold Maremont, who divides his time between the company, art collecting, lecturing on business at universities and involving himself in Chicago social welfare programs, decided to introduce some size and prestige to what was pretty much a grubby, disorganized industry. He brought in skilled executives, bought out other companies. Today his organization gets 30% of its revenue from replacement parts...
...supposed to be clearer on the mono copies. At the very end of the Reprise the group in the background starts singing the chorus to an old Rock and Roll song called "Farmer John." You can find out who sang it in the Yellow record catalogue at College Music Shop in Central Square...
Back in 1849, when Henry Charles Harrod opened his shop purveying tea, soap and candles in Knightsbridge Village, highway robberies were still common in the area. Today, Knightsbridge is one of London's swankiest sections and the most visible evidence of the tea merchant's modest business venture, a domed and terra cotta Victorian version of a Spanish castle, stands right in its midst. "Just about every visitor to London goes to Harrods," boasts the store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace...
...Crematorium. Many West Berlin businesses have set up shop elsewhere, with the result that the city has already been superseded as West Germany's financial center by Frankfurt and is now being challenged in the fashion industry by both Munich and Düsseldorf. Siemens, West Germany's biggest electrical-equipment company, moved its headquarters out of West Berlin after World War II, and others have followed suit. The inconvenience of maintaining facilities geared to West German markets in West Berlin is only too apparent. Complained one industrialist after recently abandoning Berlin: "Last year I spent 250 days...