Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar voices ("How about that!"). But when a Manhattan waiter told him last week that he recognized his voice the minute he heard it, Allen blushed-a reminder that big city fame & fortune have not entirely changed the Melvin Allen Israel who was born the son of a general store proprietor in Johns...
...London financial circles, traders gossiped and wondered as the stock of Selfridge's department store scooted from 31s. 9d. a share to 52s. 6d. in six months. Last week they heard the reason for the rise. Lord Woolton, chairman of the Conservative Party and of Lewis' Investment Trust Ltd., which owns a big chain of provincial department stores, had put in a $9,500,000 (?3,412,000) bid for the store. When Lord Woolton offered 65s. a share, Selfridge's Chairman Horace Holmes quickly advised his stockholders to sell. At the news, Selfridge's stock...
Maybe they call it erotica, but local college students like their sex wrapped up in pulp paper for spare time reading just as much as their less-educated contemporaries, a survey of Square newspaper stand operators, spa keepers, and candy store owners disclosed this week...
Carolyn Bigham graduated from Central High School in Charlotte, N.C. last year, just before her 19th birthday, and went to work in the flower department of a local store. Last month Carolyn had survived a grave illness and was just finishing grammar school again...
Split Seconds. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Eaton's department store advertised 400-day clocks, "covered by our one-year guarantee...