Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impoverished sugar town. In 1952 Paper-Mate opened a ballpoint-pen plant there, hired 400 workers, three-fourths of them women who had never worked before, and began to sprinkle a payroll of $1,250,000 a year over the town. As almost the first result, a jewelry store opened to sell the gold watches Puerto Ricans admire. A market soon developed for used cars, furniture, refrigerators...
...STORE MERGER will put Federated Department Stores within a whisker of Allied Stores in the race for No. 1 spot among U.S. department-store chains. In an $18 million stock deal, Federated (Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Boston's Filene's, Dallas' Sanger's) will take on Miami's Burdine's Inc., Florida's biggest (1955 sales: $42.8 million) department store, with four units in the state. In year ended Jan. 28, 1956, Federated, with sales of $537.7 million, was only $44 million behind Allied's pace, but now, with Burdine...
...years has beef been such a bargain. Housewives in New York last week were paying 50? or lower for choice sirloin in many a store, little more than half the price of a few years ago. One result was that consumers were tucking away more beef than ever. The U.S. will eat 82 lbs. per capita this year, a pound more than in 1955 and almost 50% more than just five years ago, when pork was king. Beef is not only the biggest single item on the U.S. food bill (17? out of every food $1) but it is also...
...rays was demonstrated by Admiral Corp. To convert the radio to sun power, a small box-shaped unit containing silicon is plugged into the back. The unit absorbs sun rays and transforms them into electrical energy. Placed by a window or in a sunny place, it can gather and store enough energy to operate the radio even on overcast days. The radio will go on sale next month at $59.95, the sun unit...
Nocturne. In Billings, Mont., Perry Whitfield was sentenced to two years for a $1,570 jewelry store robbery, despite his plea that he steals because he is affected by the changing phases of the moon...