Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When summer comes, the Jacksons turn on the air conditioning and seal themselves in their house, with occasional trips to the immense swimming pool at the nearby Hubara Club. "We go to Kuwait once a week," Mrs. Jackson says. "There's a store called Jolly Brothers where we can get Campbell's soup, American coffee, peanut butter, jelly and saltine crackers...
Shortly before noon one day last week, a young man named Mickey Margoles posted himself outside the door of a large radio store at the corner of 11th and F Streets in downtown Washington. There he sat, or stood, throughout the day and night, while others queued up. Margoles was provided with coffee, sandwiches and a sleeping bag by fraternity brothers from George Washington University. When the store opened at 7 a.m. the following day, Margoles darted in, gave a clerk $57 and got a 16-in. demonstrator console television set (normal price: $199) for Phi Sigma Kappa...
Local buyers took advantage of the reductions to stock up on records, with all four stores reporting greatly increased valume sales. One store showed a jump of over 100 percent in volume...
James F. Brine, 72, owner of an athletic goods store in Harvard Square, collapsed after leaving the witness stand in Stratford County Superior Court...
Next week Wood will take off for Latin America to open two new stores in Venezuela, and check up on plans for Sears' first store in Colombia. Next month, in Chicago, Sears will open its biggest postwar store, a $4,000,000 air-conditioned building with a supermarket and an 1,100-car parking...