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Word: store (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many teen-age boys and girls are running around in Boston, taking advantage of good decent liquor dealers," said the defense counsel for a Roxbury package store where a Brandeis University Freshman had allegedly bought eight quarts of beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liquor Sale to Minors To Be Tightened Up | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Another tough game is in store for the varsity hockey team tonight when it travels to Providence to take on Brown in a Pentagonal League contest. But Coach Cooney Weiland, pleased by the sextet's improved showing in Monday night's loss to Northeastern, is "not disturbed" by the Bruins' six, three, and one record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Will Meet Strong Brown Six Tonight at Providence | 2/7/1952 | See Source »

...Spellmans' warehouse, the Government charged, was not big enough to store 100,000 bushels of grain in the first place. After the Spellmans started selling the grain, they took pains to fool any Government inspectors who might come along. At the top of the elevator, just below the catwalk, they hung small 275-bu. bins so that anyone looking in would think that the elevator was full. At the bottom, they kept just enough grain to cover the elevator door space, in case anyone peeked in. But they need not have been so careful. In the two years they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Grain Scandal (Cont'd) | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...mainly sportswear) that she had her mannequins parade four and five at once to save time. When she was done, even her rivals cast aside professional jealousy to swarm around her, crying, "Bravissimo!n and bussing her plump cheek. Overcome, Veneziani broke down and wept. Said a California department-store buyer: "The entire American sports world should have been here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Italy's Renaissance | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...discount house is the biggest current phenomenon of U.S. merchandising. It has department stores, small dealers and other established merchants worried sick. To meet the "I can get it for you wholesale" competition, many established dealers have had to cut their own prices. One Chicago department store recently cut $335 General Electric refrigerators to $229, just $4 above actual cost. Said an executive of a Chicago merchants' association: "I would estimate that 90% of nationally branded major appliances are sold below the list price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Get It Wholesale | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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