Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were driving toward a mail box at the corner of Peachtree and Houston Streets when there came from nearby Pryor Street a roar . . . which sent a sensation of mingled fear and excitement coursing through my body . . . We saw a lame Negro bootblack from Herndon's barber shop pathetically trying to outrun a mob of whites. Less than a hundred yards from us the chase ended. We saw clubs and fists descending to the accompaniment of savage shouting and cursing. Suddenly a voice cried: 'There goes another nigger!' Its work done, the mob went after new prey...
...master clock regulates all lights, air conditioning, heating, doors and vaults in a plant. For example, a few minutes before 9 o'clock each morning, the machine can open the doors, flick on lights, turn on heat or the air conditioner; at closing time it shuts up shop without human help...
...Monsieur and Madame Poissonard are a modest little Parisian couple who keep a modest little dairy shop called An Bon Beurre. In 1950 the Poissonards have 47 million francs, a garish apartment, a country estate, and a son-in-law who is a member of parliament. The shortest distance between these two points is crooked-and savagely funny. French Satirist Jean (A Dog's Head) Dutourd has lampooned not only war profiteers but France itself, a country which has earned more justly than England, the reputation of being "a nation of shopkeepers...
Objection from France. But Lufthansa is not discouraged. Last year 26 international airlines crisscrossed Germany for a gross of 225 million DM ($53.6 million). In December alone, they carried 114,000 passengers (25% German). Lufthansa has already set up shop in Europe's largest, most modern hangar, in Hamburg, hired 700 employees, including a covey of trim stewardesses. Its bosses, moreover, are no novices in the harshly competitive airline business, but old hands. Hans M. Bongers, Lufthansa's chief, ran the line's prewar business department; Technical Director Gerhard Höltje is another veteran...
...Using piano wire bought from a model-airplane shop, two U.C.L.A. surgeons have developed an operation for opening thigh arteries clogged by cholesterol in a common form of arteriosclerosis. A wire loop passed through a length of the artery strips out the inner wall with its fatty deposits...