Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West. She married him two years later. Their second son, Dick, worked in the lemon grove as a youngster, chopping weeds and caring for the trees. The grove itself turned out to be a lemon. The family moved to Whittier and set up Nixon's Market, a general store and filling station, which is still going strong today. (Nixon's parents, still hale & hearty, have left the store to be managed by their third...
Truckloads of sets arrived from Los Angeles and Chicago; freight carfuls came from New York. Every vacant store in town became a TV outlet; even one funeral home began taking orders and promising quick delivery. Only last week did Denverites catch on that their city was becoming a dumping ground for stuff no other Americans would take...
...Boston's Jordan Marsh department store uses the CBS-Remington $25,000 color circuit, Vericolor, to lure shoppers to different floors by posting screens at strategic points to show fashions, home furnishings...
Definition. In Sunderland, England, Thomas Boyle, 45, walked into a department store and stole a toy six-shooter for one of his children, told police who arrested him: "The counter service was too slow, and that's criminal...
Credit Rating. In Central Falls, R.I., when an irate burglar found no money in John Marks's store, he left a hastily scribbled note: "What! Are you bankrupt...