Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING is starting off with a rush. Washington and Boston department stores reported record crowds, with some store sales last week-the traditional kickoff for Christmas buying-up 30% over last year. New York stores were packed; Atlanta's big Rich's department store had the greatest single-day volume in its 87-year history; and a record turnout of 800,000 shoppers jammed Chicago's Loop...
...announcement came the same day that Federated Department Stores, Inc., second biggest U.S. department-store chain, announced that it will cut Fair Trade prices at all its 34 stores to meet competition from the discount houses. Federated was not the first to challenge the discount houses on their own ground. Since summer, Detroit's big J. L. Hudson Co. and St. Louis' three biggest department stores have widely advertised that they will meet the lowest prices in town on any item, whether Fair Traded or not (TIME, Sept...
Guilt Complex. In Mount Pleasant, Texas, after he had 1) robbed a liquor store, 2) robbed and kidnaped a cab driver, 3) threatened the driver until he leaped from his cab and let it smash into a concrete wall, James K. Justice, 28, remarked ruefully to arresting officers: "I guess I'll have to go to jail for this...
Real-Estate Juggler William Zeckendorf is a man who likes to "turn peanuts into bananas." Last year, hoping to turn the trick again, he started work on a $35 million hotel and department-store center on a vacant plot in Denver. He soon ran into trouble. The plans called for a 1,000-car underground garage, but when Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp engineers started taking core samples, they found a 65-ft. formation of blue clay, sand and rock that would have to be excavated at a cost of about $3.000,000. Bill Zeckendorf told his men to keep...
...grandpa's seven granddaughters (Athena, Minerva. Niobe, Aphrodite, Calliope, Medea and Ceres) run a yoghurt, blackstrap and spinach-juice store, and after hours they take their eurythmics in the grove. Grandpa is delighted to meet Adam ("I liked the look of your sartorius muscle as soon as I saw you"), and invites him to a meal of peanutburgers. That night Athena sends Adam home with tokens of her love: a bag of raw vegetables and a bar bell...