Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Feb. 25 article, "The General's General Store," gave me a great deal of pleasure, as I used to know General Wood very well vhen he and I were working on the Panama Canal construction ... He was friendly and well liked ... by his employees ... I have known for a long time that General Wood is, in fact, Sears, Roebuck, and that Sears, Roebuck is General Wood, and as such he has done as much for the U.S.A. as any other Derson presently active in national affairs...
Three weeks ago, Arnold Schuster, 24, was going about his uneventful life as a clerk in his father's gents' furnishings store in Brooklyn. Fame touched him when, riding a subway, he spotted Bank Robber Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the nation's most wanted criminal, on an opposite seat. Schuster's tip led police to capture Willie (TIME, March 3). Then, when the cops tried to hog the credit, he hired a lawyer to establish his claim to a rumored reward...
Supermarket. Goody has no salesmen and no listening-booths in his huge store, only self-serve shelves and a big directory in front, telling where everything can be found. Three adding-machine operators check out the customers, as in a supermarket. He now does 60% of his entire business by mail, has given retailers jitters as far away as Chicago...
...statement. But the recent action by the State Commissioner of Public Safety is suspicious in another way. He warned book sellers in the state that if they sell U.S.A. Confidential, they would be held responsible for any libel and obscenity suits. Immediately after this "advice," virtually every store in Massachusetts hastily withdrew the book and tucked it away...