Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this practiced repairmanship, the homeowner has developed his own countergambits. The wise antirepairman knows, for example, that he must never, never deal with underlings; he must always go straight to the top-write the company president. One St. Louis man gets super service by calling the repair-shop owner, threatening to come down and "punch the first person I see in the nose." Others try the food gambit, laying on sandwiches, beer or liquor for the repairman. And when all else fails, a wife can call the repairman's wife. Says one Milwaukeean: "I asked...
President of the A.L.A.'s biggest local (New York City), Swayduck, 46, has been urging technological progress in lithography ever since boyhood, when he chided his father, owner of a small lithography shop in Indianapolis, for sticking with old-fashioned techniques. After he became a lithographer himself, the younger Swayduck saw technological changes-rotary instead of flatbed presses, metal instead of stone plates, new color-printing techniques-lead to more and more jobs for lithographers at higher and higher pay (now $125 to $200 for a 35-hour week). Convinced that unions ought to promote higher productivity, not resist...
...Moslems by urging them to revolt. His capture was a serious blow to the Algerian rebels. Anxious to show that it was not a fatal one, Moslem terrorists slipped into the heart of Constantine, third biggest (pop. 118,000) of Algeria's cities, and for 20 minutes sprayed shop fronts, office windows and automobiles with submachine-gun bullets...
...years in Egypt and another two in Madagascar. Lawson's my first name, not my last name. I had quite a time deciding what I would name this place. I didn't want to call it the Cambridge Academy of Fine Arts. Everybody around here likes to name their shop 'The Cambridge this' or 'The Cambridge that.' Lawson seemed to work all right, though...
...shop is filled with a conglomeration of exotic glue pots, picture frames, the smell of turpentine, prints from the Ming Dynasty, welded metal sculpture, mobiles, folk pottery, and usually an exhibition of the most abstract of abstracts by one young artist or another. Paul has recently come down to earth with a small shop on the street level devoted entirely to ceramics. His personality can be felt everywhere in a quiet, yet intense sort of way as he arranges things or looks up as someone comes in the door...