Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their suite and found it occupied by Cassini's ex-wife ("Bootsie" McDonnell-also a columnist), who had been ushered in by mistake. (They compromised on adjoining suites.) Kaiser-Frazer's Joe Frazer and Otis & Co.'s Cyrus Eaton, currently feuding over K-F's stock troubles, spent the time busily dodging each other...
...States; to less well-known patrons in Siberia, Greenland, and even Tibet. Techniques of compounding potions have changed little since the customers wore string ties and bustles, but the products are somewhat different. Patent medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological scrums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students may use the store telephone to schedule a rendezvous, they know better than to ask for benzedrino...
...signboard with the number 1360, which some think is the date of construction. But Billings and Stover, though one of the oldest stores in the Square, makes no pretense of antedating Ponce de Leon. His over-sought youth-restorative is one drug they still don't have in stock...
...layman president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America) set up a one-room law office in Cincinnati. The two young Tafts got plenty of business. Uncle Charles owned the Times-Star, and when he died Bob inherited a minority interest in Times-Star stock. He still owns it. Bob declined to join Charles in a fight to reform the corrupt city government; he strung along with the late Boss Rudolph Hynicka, used the machine's help to get to the legislature...
...later ones grow somewhat confused with the ramifications of the feud), it summons up the life of the mountains in the days before the fighting began: little streams, dropping 25 feet to the mile, with names like Grapevine, Blackberry, Sulphur, Sycamore, Turkey and Buffalo; old families of English stock bearing names like Vance, Chafin, Smith, Weddington, Varney, Cline and Trent; forests of oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, linden, beech, sycamore; cabins with quiet hospitality, plenty of food, and courteous, high-strung, honest and proud people...