Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory. Within two years he had acquired an A.F.L. charter, moved his boys into the Teamsters Union, taken over the trusteeship of debt-ridden Teamster Local 299 in Detroit. Singlemindedly, he shoved ahead. "In those days," says Hoffa in his rough, staccato voice, "Detroit was the toughest open-shop town in the country. It was like a dime crime novel, with all the shootings and slug-gings. I was hit so many times with nightsticks, clubs and brass knuckles that I can't ever remember where the bruises were. But I can hit back. Guys who tried to break...
...hurdle was Papa Kazanjian, who bundled Episcopalian Arlene off to a Roman Catholic convent when she was seven, later put her in Manhattan's flossy Finch School for proper young ladies. In a final, futile effort to steer her clear of the theater, he bought her a gift shop on Madison Avenue (Studio d'Arlene), which closed in the Depression. Soon a toughened veteran of the soap-opera circuit (Big Sister, Aunt Jenny), Arlene went on to mysteries (Mr. District Attorney), musicals (Phil Spitalny's show), and THE MARCH OF TIME. In her 20-odd Broadway roles...
...anniversary was celebrated amid what the Times of India calls "an accelerating volume of discontent." Less than two hours after the Prime Minister's Delhi speech, 2,000 students, angered by a 50% increase in their tuition fees, ran riot in the pink, princely city of Jaipur, breaking shop windows and setting fires as they went. In subtropical Assam thousands boycotted the Independence Day celebrations in their wrath over a government announcement that a new refinery to process Assamese oil might be built outside Assam...
...defunct biracial Cosmopolitan tennis club. Her game, which had been an exercise in sheer power, began to show signs of sophistication. Now all her life was focused on tennis. She quit school and went to work. She was a counter girl in a Chock Full o' Nuts shop in lower Manhattan, a chicken cleaner on Long Island ("I used to have to take out the guts and everything, but I still like chicken"), an elevator operator in the midtown Dixie Hotel, a packer in a button factory, a mechanic in a machine shop ("It was puttin' screws...
Unlimited Market. Back in Opelika after war's end, Orr set up shop with six employees to make the improved tape. He invested $250,000 realized from the sale of Opelika's radio station WJHO and other holdings, sold stock to friends by incorporating in 1950, raised another $246,675 in 1953 by a public offering of 149,500 shares of stock. After licking production problems, he developed a new tape coating (Ferro-Sheen) with unusually high fidelity. This caught the eye of the Ampex Corp., a maker of wire recorders and other electronic equipment, which had gone...