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Word: store (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, the book is published in England and is very difficult to obtain in this country. A new edition came out last March, and in July Garrett ordered 80 copies of the text through the Phillips Book Store...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: New York Dock Strike Entangles Physics Books in Web of Mystery | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

Local merchants said that the situation here has not yet become critical. They believe that customers who hoard pennies in piggy banks are seriously to blame for the present situation. "If customers would only turn in their loose pennies when they make a purchase," one store-keeper said, "all this would never have happened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buddy, Can You Spare a Penny? | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

...Could be family pride . . . but my brother, Harry C. Stone, was the cop who shot the "Man from Mars" with one revolver shot, in a crowded grocery store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Cambridge detectives this week began a city-wide drive to eliminate so-called "obscene and pornographic" literature from local newsstands. Two twenty-five cent reprints have been banned by the police in the last four days, and officers searched the book racks of one store in the Square yesterday in a hunt for copies of the two blacklisted volumes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Police Start New Campaign Against Sexy News Stand Wares | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

Federated hopes to bring the "big city" department store to smaller towns. Each Fedway store will be air-conditioned, windowless (except for show windows), carry everything from diapers to home freezers, have customer charge accounts, free delivery, parking space. Stockrooms will be built around the rim of the modernistic stores, so that clerks can give faster service to customers and refill their supplies themselves. For Federated, the stores mark two big changes. Up till now, it has expanded only by buying other stores. In its nine department stores and 16 branches, whose sales last year totaled $424 million, each store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: New Chain | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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