Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mico, warning waiters that any more such sabotage of the restaurant law could mean big trouble. La Epoca insisted: "The cry, 'Menú econímico for one!' must never again be heard . . . How would a waiter feel if he went into a shoe store and the clerk shouted: 'A pair of cheap shoes...
...Angeles and, therefore, does not come under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, which has yet to make up its mind about subscription TV. Telemeter's Pressagent Paul MacNamara insisted that "Palm Springs is not a test. We are beginning operations. We have opened our store. The results will be interesting to everyone concerned -motion pictures, football and baseball, business and the FCC-all of the people who, in the future, will be using this new method of distribution...
Sneak Preview. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the new Quiroz Joias jewelry store called off its grand opening after thieves broke through a wall, made off with $137,500 worth of stock...
...London similar indignities were afoot. A thief entered a jewelry store and announced to the bored proprietor, "This is a held-up." As the merchant calmly pushed the desperado out of the store, he said, "Nonsense, I've got not time to waste with hoodlums...
...even learn to read handwriting. Mrs. Marion Wilkens, after making the "shocking" discovery that her son could not read a postcard she had sent from Hawaii, founded the "Parents Research Committee" to investigate. The Committee learned that a high school boy had nearly lost his job in a grocery store because he could not read a customer's written order. A mother stated that she sent her little girls to parochial school because "they weren't learning handwriting in public school's." And another parent admitted she was mortified that her 10-year-old could not even read a letter...