Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cost of Living. In Sherman, Texas, Price's department store advertised $2 shirts...
...Patrolman Pasquale Lipsio saw it last week, when three ladies in flowing scarves went gliding into Bloomingdale's branch store in New Rochelle, it was simple: those gypsies were back in town. He promptly called his sergeant. Detectives John Dooley and Joe Reifenberger hopped into a squad car, sped to the store and proceeded cautiously to case the joint. There, sure enough, were the foreign-costumed ladies, two of them wandering through the gift shop, the third looking over spoons in the silver department...
...will say this much for your mood: at least it is healthier than the one which attended my own commencement . . . No such disillusionment lies in store for you as awaited us in 1929: come what may, you are better prepared for it. But that is all I will say for your mood. As a philosophy of life, it is as false in its fatalism as our mood was in its romanticism...
...skirmishes throughout the nation, it was simply a return to the loss-leader method of catching customers. In Akron, druggists made much of lopping 30% and more off the prices of such national brands as Ex-Lax, Anacin, and Drene shampoo, left other prices unchanged. One Atlanta jewelry store caught the fever, cut diamond prices as much as 50%. Even in New York City, the war had simmered down to smaller price cuts, usually in cheaper lines. But there were still flare-ups. Union Square's S. Klein cut men's suits and women's dresses...
...Eugene, Ore., the Big Y store installed four "Rest-a-Checks" at the checkout stations so that customers could take it easy while waiting to pay bills. The Rest-a-Check is a circular turntable divided into three sections, each with a foam-rubber seat big enough to hold three people. When the check-out clerk is ready, he presses a lever which rotates the seats in merry-go-round fashion; the customer pays sitting down...