Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambition, the HDC almost manages to supplement the play's inadequacies with skillful acting, brilliant sets and costumes, imaginative direction, and a specially composed score. As a tour de force for the HDC, Marco is a definite, if quiet, success: the theatre group shows a good store of technical achievement. But Marco Millions is shabby entertainment for an evening...
Scoreboard. In Glendale, Calif., nabbed when he tried to rob a liquor store, Dan Walsh, 40, handed police his pistol, boasted that each of the eight notches in the handle represented a successful robbery...
...history. President Ralph J. Cordiner predicted that G.E.'s profits for the entire year would be better than in 1953. For those whose earnings were down, the drop was usually less, percentagewise, than the drop in sales. There were other encouraging signs. Dun & Bradstreet announced that department-store sales for the Easter season were equal to those last year. And the National Association of Purchasing Agents reported, for the third month in a row, that the majority of their members reported an increase in orders...
Security investigations, from this point of view, operate very nearly on the level of discharging a clerk from a dime store. Since all doubts are accounted in favor of the government, Senator McCarthy's evidence need not be either conclusive, adequate, or true. His charges must only cause doubts sufficient to warrant further investigation or the firing of the accused...
...Careful Shopper. In Denver, charged with stealing two suits from a store, Elmer Blakely explained that he had taken the clothes "to examine them under natural light," tried to elude a female store detective only because "I first thought she was my estranged wife...