Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London last week on the last leg of his seven-week swing through Europe (TIME, May 28 et seq.). After the first press conference (where he backed President Eisenhower by saying that American prestige abroad was "never higher"), he was astonished when 200 newsmen applauded him. Even a clothing-store clerk was captivated when Harry sauntered in to purchase a dress tie, lingered to demonstrate his Kansas City haberdasher's technique for selling four-in-hands...
COSTLIER COFFEE is in store, caused by U.S. competition for quality South American beans, which are in short supply due to rain damage. Most vacuum-packed brands will soon retail for $1.10 per lb., v. the $1.40 record set as a result of market manipulation in 1954. Instant coffee will go up about...
Homework. In Hemet, Calif., a schoolboy dropped into a stationery store, browsed around, sheepishly asked the clerk: "Have you got any blank report cards...
...both far above the first-quarter rate of $32.8 billion annually. Employment was still rising, hit a seasonal record of 65 million in May, while personal income soared to a peak of $317 billion, up $2 billion from March. Unemployment was steady at 2.6 million, unchanged from April. Department-store sales for May were 6% higher than last year, while overall sales for 1956 to date are 3% ahead...
...outskirts of Brodno, Poland. Peter thinks of death as a quiet neighbor until the freight cars of ill-fated Jews rumble past and the calling and weeping of human voices is carried on the wind until it fades into the distance, "leaving behind it that same serene sky, that store of blue that bewildered birds and dying men can never exhaust...