Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started hooking candy from the corner store," Frankie recalls. "Then little things from the five-and-dime, then change from cash registers, and finally, we were up to stealing bicycles." Pretty soon Frank was involved in some rough gang wars. He got so good at planning jobs that his awe-struck henchmen called him "Angles," and he had plenty of bad examples to follow, pretty close to home. The streets he played in were full of bootleggers and triggermen; there were even a couple of neighborhood gang killings...
...Illusions. The East Harlem Protestant Parish consists of one church building, three store-front churches and several recreation halls and offices, all within a few blocks of each other, north of East 100th Street. It serves a 21-block area containing some 30,000 people, most of them Puerto Ricans and Negroes. The project is supported by eight Protestant denominations (Baptist, Congregationalist, Evangelical United Brethren, Methodist, Mennonite, Presbyterian. Reformed Church. Evangelical and Reformed), is regularly served by seven young ministers (two are women) and a staff of ten workers...
...mambo" panties. He also revamped Kayser advertising to emphasize girlish glamour instead of spinstership thrift: "Be Wiser-Buy Kayser," its longtime slogan, became "You Owe It To Your Audience." When Kayser's new-looking 1955 lingerie collection was shown last June, it drew the biggest crowd of department-store buyers in Kayser's history, spurred a 50% spurt in sales...
...them, instead of renting an apartment, get a Government-insured loan to buy a house and pay for it in small monthly installments. The monthly payments, which they consider savings and investment as well as housing cost, can also take care of taxes and insurance. From a furniture store they can get a living-room set at $15 a month, and from the appliance man a freezer for $8.29 a month. If they want a power mower, some hardware dealers will sell them one for a few dollars each month in a budget charge account. The clothier, the fuel...
Neither Snow Nor Rain. In Gulfport, Miss., the postman correctly delivered to J. R. and T. S. Glower a letter from Waco, Texas addressed: "Downtown Furniture Store Run by Two Brothers who Look Alike, Across Street from Dime Store, Appliance Store at One End of Street, Dry Goods Store at Other...