Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's elegant St. Regis Hotel last week, a waiter carried two tomatoes on a tray into the suite of Mrs. Tillie Lewis of Stockton, Calif. She was aghast at the bill ($1). "You tell Vincent Astor,"* said Mrs. Lewis as she signed the check, "that these tomatoes cost him no more than 5? apiece, that's 1,000% profit." Said the waiter: "I guess you know your tomatoes...
...first graduating class in 1748, was signer of the Declaration of Independence Richard Stockton...
...Stockton, Calif., Amos Alonzo Stagg, football's lean and slippered pantaloon, sat down to his 89th birthday dinner (half cup of pea soup, two ears of corn, peaches and milk-"Never any fuss about birthdays at our house") and made plans for his 62nd year of coaching. This fall he will return to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., where he has been co-coach with his son Amos Alonzo Jr., 52, for the past four years...
...Rickle History; Edward J. Rosek, Government Robert A. Russell, Government; Melvin C. Shefftz, History; Charles R. Sheparson, Biology; Julius Silberger, Jr., Biology; John B. Snook '49, History and Literature; Louis Solomon, Mathematics Archibal C. Spencer, English; Henry Steiner, History and Literature; David B. Stewart, Geological Sciences; Richard E. Stockton, English; John M. Teal, Biology; David J. Thomas, History; P. H. Tobias, History; Anthony D. Tormontozzi, Biology; Richard J. Turns, Mathematics; Paul A. Wallace, Jr., History and Literature; Harvey J. Weil, Physics; Richard M. White, Engineering Sciences; Calvin H. Wilcox, Mathematics; Frank H. Wood, History
...full-page newspaper ads: "Now you can buy 5,978 'price-fixed' items at less than price-fixed prices -at Macy's." In New Jersey, Kings Super Markets slashed prices on brand products as much as 30% and promised to cut more. Grocer Charlie Hawkins of Stockton, Calif., a long-standing fair-trade enemy, chalked up his new prices, said: "The little independent guy will now be able to make competition for the big chains...