Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the eulogies were finished, Andrei Zhdanov was lowered into a grave beside the Kremlin's wall and behind Lenin's mausoleum. It was a hole about equal in size to the living space Russian housing provides for the average Russian...
...atmosphere appears to be transparent, but this is a partial illusion. Man's most useful senses (sight and hearing) are designed to respond to waves (light and sound) which the air allows to pass. Many other waves and speeding particles from space are stopped or weakened by the atmosphere. To detect these mysterious travelers, scientists must rocket their instruments above the "opaque...
This week the Leonards opened the latest addition to their cut-price department store. It upped their selling space by half, making it one of the largest retail houses in the Southwest. They expect 100,000 customers on opening day, hope never to see a day when the cash registers fail to ring up $100,000 in sales...
...Leonard brothers, in addition to low prices, lure customers with such things as shopping buggies that have space for both packages and babies. In keeping with their original general-store idea, the Leonards try to stock their counters with so great a variety that there is sure to be something in the store for everybody. Old hands at buying (and selling) "distress merchandise," they once bought eleven carloads of "surplus white enamel iron mosquito bars, converted them into wartime-scarce towel racks, and sold the whole caboodle at a nice profit...
...Leonards treat their suppliers with the same regard as their customers. Salesmen are met at the railroad station with limousines, and office space is provided them. The store has a fleet of trucks which pick up much of the merchandise it buys-a scheme that helps to keep down costs...