Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaza's status, and scent change. Urchins openly hawk cigarette lighters bearing Nasser's picture. Authorities last week arrested 20 Gaza teachers for assigning teen-age pupils to write essays on the need for killing Israelis. Merchants were refusing to accept Israeli money, and the only shop that the Israelis had opened in the strip reported no trade because purchases could be made only in Israeli pounds...
Haifa clothing merchants agreed to lend each officer a civilian suit for a day, and a tour usually began with host (recruited among Haifa doctors, lawyers, engineers and architects) and his Egyptian "guest" in a tailor shop amiably debating the fit or fashion of assorted suits or shirts. The host took his Egyptian wherever he wanted to go, to see whatever he wanted to see. Some went to the movies, to concerts, sipped coffee in cafés, went shopping in Haifa or Jerusalem. Others visited factories, cooperative villages and kibbutzim...
Twelve years ago Max Grundig was just another drummed-out German quartermaster private, with a headful of ideas and a handful of tools. But he had neither money nor shop with which to put them to work. Today Grundig is Germany's No. 1 radio-set maker, claims to be Europe's biggest. At 48 he is owner and ram-rodding boss of a 13,000-worker, six-plant electronics business that last year grossed some $50 million on sales of 900,000 radios, TV sets, phonographs and recorders. Almost half were exported, including big shipments...
...quit school at 14 to be an electrician's apprentice, was mustered out of the German army in 1944 to operate a small plant making radio transformers and coils. At war's end he went back to his home town of Fürth and set up shop in a few flea-ridden rented rooms. He hoped to make radios, which were scarce and rationed. But the Allies forbade production of radio equipment. However, they did permit the manufacture of toys, so Grundig turned out a "toy": a knocked-down "Do-It-Yourself" radio kit. He took advance...
Vladimir rated annual vacations with other tired terrorists, new warm clothes, passes to an excellent restaurant and to "any bathhouse." Both had the feeling they had been born for a bright tomorrow, despite some drawbacks, e.g., one of Vladimir's vacations was spoiled a little by shop talk about executions. After Evdokia and Vladimir were married in 1940, they were an enviable and well-adjusted husband-and-wife team in the world's bloodiest police force. What went wrong with their lives? Posted to the Soviet embassy in Canberra, the Petrovs never had it so good. With...