Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enter the Hunchback. The title story has a standard McCullers theme: love and loneliness in a Southern town. Miss Amelia is 30, solitary and well-to-do with the profits of her store (feed, guano, meal and moonshine whisky). Once she had been married-for ten days; but she had driven her husband off with her powerful fists and rasping tongue. But one day a little hunchback with a soft, sassy face comes to town and announces that he is Miss Amelia's kin. To everybody's surprise, she takes him in, and a big change takes place...
...national crisis, someone usually comes up with a brilliant idea. Such a one is Robert F. Love [who wants to launch a fund to buy a haberdashery store for President Truman-TIME, April 30, Letters...
...Robert F. Love . . . has bombastically suggested that we who do not want Mr. Truman for President for another term should chip in $1 and buy him a haberdashery store. . . I'll bet Mr. Love could have cracked some side-splitting jokes about Lincoln's background, had he been a pundit of that...
...quickly hedged; it sold its fixed-income securities, invested in real estate. By 1881, some 40% of the university fund was tied up in land, including such choice morsels as the Boston corner lot which is now the site of Jordan Marsh Co., New England's biggest department store. Not until Boston Banker Charles Francis Adams became treasurer in 1898 did Harvard start shifting from real estate to common stocks. When the 1929 Wall Street crash put many good securities on the bargain counter, Harvard bought stocks faster than ever (see chart), now holds $112 million worth...
...itemize, felt the same way, but few could take such drastic action as DeVore. Most of them would simply not be able to comply. Cried Victor L. Hubert of Mansfield, Mass.: "I couldn't possibly complete price lists for the 10,000 to 12,000 items in my store by May 30. But I've got to go on taking care of my customers ... So I'll be thrown outside the law." The OPS had issued the hardware order without formally consulting the hardware industry. Flooded with protests, it was considering exempting hardware retailers from the order...