Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan's upper Broadway, Chris Stola had replenished his stock of stereo equipment, put in a solid steel door in place of the vulnerable metal gate and was back in business. He was lucky; police had chased looters away from his store, so his losses totaled only about $2,000. But he got the jitters last week when some teen-agers bobbed their heads in the door and warned: "Next time we'll get you harder...
...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...
After touring the ravaged South Bronx, TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin reported: "Streams of black water from broken fire hydrants swept the residue of the looting into the middle of the streets. Burned-out delivery trucks, spilling their seats onto the pavement, blocked doorways. Twisted steel grilles?some yanked from storefronts with trucks that were then filled with loot?lay across sidewalks. In the new Fedco supermarket, shelves gleamed bare and white, while several inches of mashed produce, packages of squashed hamburger, rivers of melted ice cream, and broken bottles covered the floors. The stench was overpowering. Up to 300 stores...
Stores owned by blacks and Hispanics suffered the same fate as those operated by whites. In Brooklyn, the Fort Green cooperative supermarket?set up by low-income blacks after the 1968 riots?was stripped bare. The store had no steel window guards because, said Manager Clifford Thomas, "we thought we were part of the community. We were wrong...
...With the Communist parties of Italy and France stridently confident about future elections, the flight of capital is bound to continue. Otto Wolff von Amerongen, who heads his own $1 billion steel firm and is chairman of the German chambers of commerce and industry, shudders at the thought of a leftist victory in a Common Market country. Says he: "We cannot digest within the Community a Communist-dominated government." That may be so, although other European commentators are less fearful about Communist participation in Cabinets. Meanwhile, the U.S. Commerce Department has set up a new office of foreign investment...