Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obliging Congressmen pay $6.50 (the price at the congressional stationery store). A new flag of the same make that has never flown over the nation's Capitol costs $13.70 retail...
...movie's best single performance, though, is by the supporting actor who plays the town clerk. Sitting in his store and cheating at checkers all day, he contributes a jovial ghoulishness that contrasts ideally with Robinson's deadpan variety...
...last quarter, the upbeat began. In October, for the first time in 1954, employment topped the 1953 figure. The industrial wage index not only snapped out of its decline, but rose to a new alltime high ($59.26 weekly). Then a great surge of Christmas business hit the retail stores. Morgan's big department store in Montreal had the best December in the company's log-year history; Vancouver stores estimated that their 1954 Christmas sales would be at least 10% above last year...
...climb was the fact that business was getting better all the time. Labor Secretary James Mitchell reported last week that new claims for unemployment compensation in the third week in December had fallen to 301,700, almost 11,000 below the week before. Last minute Christmas buying boosted department-store sales a full 3% ahead of the corresponding week in 1953. And the Federal Reserve Board industrial-production index for November rose to 129, (1947-49=100), showing an unusual upturn at a season when industrial production normally dips...
Deck the Halls. In Milwaukee, after they had been consulted by an insurance representative for a local department store, University of Wisconsin botanists issued a general warning to several hundred anonymous purchasers of floral bouquets that, unknown to the store, the "autumn berries" in each bouquet were plain sprigs of poison...