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Word: store (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mildred Bailey (real name: Rinker), 48, blues-moaning jazz singer, whose trademark was Rockin' Chair; of a heart ailment; in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Half Coeur d'Alêne Indian, she got her start at 17, plugging tunes in a Seattle store for $10 a week, became a radio star with Paul Whiteman's orchestra (1929-34), made records, which have since become collector's items, with most of the leading jazzmen of her day (including ex-Husband Red Norvo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

UPPER LEFT, for instance, an assemblage scrambles for a miscellaneous collection of goodies in a metropolitan department store, a most terrifying and bewildering place this time of year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mobs Prowl Shops in Push To Ring Christmas Welkin | 12/22/1951 | See Source »

Twenty-seven Harvard Square store owners told the CRIMSON that this year's Christmas sales are equal to those of last year, in response to a recent poll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Merchants Report Sales Rise | 12/22/1951 | See Source »

...store officials reported that most people did their Christmas shopping early this year, and that their business from Harvard students and faculty members was unusually brisk, because classes end so close to December 25 that buying that normally was done out-of-state was done in Cambridge. While Cambridge sales went up, Boston averages dropped two percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Merchants Report Sales Rise | 12/22/1951 | See Source »

Cambridge store owners say that this late rush might enable them to show a record number of sales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Merchants Report Sales Rise | 12/22/1951 | See Source »

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