Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, cheerful, big-boned William I. Roberts- last of the family to inherit the place - decided to quit the soil. He became a butter & egg salesman, then a partner in a general store, and finally got into the automobile parts business. But he kept on living on the farm. His son, William I. Roberts Jr., grew up, married and brought his bride to the house. His grandson. William I. Roberts III, grew up, married and brought his bride there too. When William I. Roberts IV was born two years ago, four generations were sheltered beneath its old rafters...
After exhausting the store of cheese offered by the various delicatessens in the Square, the group is looking for new sources. "We're going to start buying from Jordan-Marsh import department, then when we exhaust their supply we'll switch to Macy's in New York," Jameson explained...
When negotiations with the union began last fall, the stores not only balked at wage increases but insisted that the driver-helper and parcel-post featherbedding clauses be modified. After the strike began on Dec. i, Dave Beck, the Teamsters' international boss, asked both sides to arbitrate. Management's answer was that its right to use the Government mails was hardly a subject for arbitration. The local union also rejected Beck's plea and the strike broke out in violence. Store windows were smashed, paint and gasoline bombs thrown against cars of customers and nonstrikers...
WHEAT farmers, despite the worst drought in a decade, may still wind up the year with more grain than they can store. Five weeks of dry, 40-to-50-m.p.h. winds have damaged at least 25% of the winter wheat crop west of Dodge City, Kans. But the winter wheat belt east of there still expects a better-than-average crop, which would push the totals over storage limits...
...from $110 million to $118 million. Ward's sales fell 7.9% to $999,123,379 (below $1 billion for the first time since 1946), and net profit dropped from $49 million to $41 million. But in one balance-sheet figure, cautious Montgomery Ward-"the only bank with a store front"-had the edge. Ward owed no money, and its cash of $23 million and Government securities of $270 million were equal to about $45 a share on the 6,502,378 shares outstanding. Sears owed $200 million, and its $320 million in cash and $9,000,000 in securities...