Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crash came. Then I guess I woke up. So, when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what he had in 1929 when he lost his patron and decided...
Despite a modest tuition of only $8, enrollment dwindled as the school's troubles piled up, was down to 400 this fall. Last week, with no perceptible whisper of protest from an estimated 120,000 alumni, Jefferson trustees plaintively announced that they would close up shop at the end of the current semester. "Unwarranted persecution by the Federal Government," they wailed, "has created a financial situation in which it is impossible for the school to continue...
What Kadar feared most was the establishment of a nationwide coalition of workers' councils that might turn into a kind of parliament. When, at midweek, an organization calling itself the "National Central Workers' Council" began to set up shop in Budapest, Kadar's police moved in on it. Two days later, worried by the proliferation of clandestine newssheets, the police seized every duplicating machine they could lay hands...
Sold by Phone. Funneled down to Manhattan high-pressure, boiler-shop operators over a period of months, said SEC, the stock was sold by phone all over the U.S. for more than $7,500,000 (including the brokers' 15% commission). Later, another 500,000 shares of Sweet Grass stock were issued to cover a merger with a Canadian company called Pitt Petroleums Ltd., and sold in the U.S. In a third merger, involving Kroy Oils and a Texas-Oklahoma company called Coronet Development Corp., Kroy officials, some of them also connected with Great Sweet Grass, issued...
Camera Obscura. In Manhattan, a camera shop carried an official bankruptcy notice in one window, its own sign in the other...