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...Pontiac showroom in The Bronx, looters smashed through a steel door and stole 50 new cars, valued at $250,000; they put the ignition wires together and drove off. Young men roamed East 14th Street in Manhattan, snatching women's purses. Adults toted shopping bags stuffed with steaks and roasts from a meat market on 125th Street in Harlem. At an appliance store on 105th Street, two boys about ten years old staggered along with a TV set, while a woman strolled by with three radios. "It's the night of the animals," said Police Sergeant Robert Murphy, who wore...
...blot on the good name of socialism in Eastern Europe: the waiting time for purchasing a private automobile is frequently longer than a five-year plan and seldom shorter than the Berlin blockade. Only those with access to foreign currency seem to be able to drive away from a showroom with a new car minutes after walking in. For humbler folk who have the cash to spend (but precious little to buy), the wait can drag on for as long as seven years. Although the Polish government is trying hard to meet consumer needs, the fierce demand for wheels outstrips...
When the arguing was over, John Ginn himself spoke at the awards banquet: "I feel like the guy who went to a psychiatrist and ended up in the showroom window of the biggest department store in town." He had decided on a long-term approach, he said, and waited until the next year to raise advertising rates and reduce the width of his pages. The I.P.C. now was flourishing...
Wedgwood's business expanded so quickly that within ten years he had built a new factory (cost: more than £3,000), opened a London showroom, and started work on a whole village for his workers, to be named Etruria. As a prominent businessman, Wedgwood repeatedly urged Parliament to build new highways and canals to aid commerce. As a man who remembered his own lack of education he contributed toward two free schools for the poor...
...variety in sizes, shapes, and prices will allow you to find just the right one for almost anyone you know. Something unique for a friend or a relative; something grandly elegant for someone very special. We've opened a little Victorian showroom over on Newbury Street; we're open from 10 until 6 all week and from 11-5 on Saturdays and we'll be here as long as the collection lasts. Visit us while they're still here, you could make someone very happy...