Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struck the city (pop. 27,948) with a noise like a fast-moving freight, toppled markers along the Confederate trenches used during the Civil War siege of Vicksburg, flattened the flimsy shanties of the Negro section, roared through the heart of the business district, demolishing or damaging nearly every store in a twelve-block area, then capriciously hopped several blocks to a northern part of the city before spending itself...
...police lectured their fathers in vain. Once, after the boys broke into an auto-parts store, County Judge George Roane summoned the fathers before him and demanded that they make their sons obey. The fathers shrugged, and the boys carried on as usual. They broke into the Greyhound Bus station, later cracked a food market for candy and change. It was then that Judge Roane decided to invoke a new law. "We decided to try the parents," says he, "not the children...
...Latest." Department stores, with heavy Christmas advertising scheduled for the struck papers, reported a sharp drop in telephone and mail-order sales, but no noticeable slackening in the number of customers coming into the stores. One store filled its window with a big placard: "These Ads Would Have Been in the Sunday Times." Many stores took to radio and TV to sell their wares. WCBS reported 17 new ad accounts, and WOR said that "our sales department is going frantic turning down money." All stations stepped up their news broadcasts as well as ads. NBC put sandwich...
Vocational Guidance. In Akron, when the judge asked her why she had stolen a $39 coat from a department store, Eula Cody, 18, replied: "Someone told me it was easy to steal...
Dangerous When Wet. In Inglewood, Calif., suing Hartfield's department store, Patricia Muncy, 29, charged that her bathing suit had turned transparent when wet, leaving her "exposed to public gaze and ridicule," asked $10,000 to compensate for "shock" and a $10.53 refund for the bathing suit...