Word: shops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disclaiming Mickey's charges that they are operating under false names, the proprietors of the shop were forced to admit the truth of his charges that there are scarcely 400 volumes in the shop and that book sales are insufficient to meet costs. They asserted that running expenses are covered by sponsoring motion pictures and lectures...
There is a cast of 175, including 50 dancers, which is made up of "cafe society," laborers, shop girls, chorines, office workers, and others. Dominated by an overhanging replica of an El, the scenes shift from drawing-rooms to manholes, street corners, Central Park, bars, offices, and stores. Music and dancing fill some of these scenes in addition to those which are purely dramatic...
...expired. Chrysler bargained for the lowest possible wage increase, also hoped to defeat union demands for 1) all-union hiring in the corporation's plants; 2) arbitration of plant grievances, 3) a voice in setting production speeds. Only issue finally disposed of last week was the all-union shop (which U.A.W. swapped off for a tentative compromise on arbitration...
...train drew in a brass band blared French and Polish airs and the city was thick with crossed French, Polish and British flags. In every shop window were placards reading ALL HONOR TO HEROIC AND MARTYRED POLAND. Citizens of Angers cordially cried "Vive Sikorski" although remarking privately that perhaps the presence of their Polish guests may make Angers a target for German bombs...
Miss Campbell's constituents, who live in Johnson County's richest township, are farmers, mostly young, with large families. She urges all her boys to go to high school. One of her girl graduates is a beauty shop operator in Iowa City, another is doing housework in Evanston, Ill., saving up to study nursing...