Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Folly Forge. In Nampa, Idaho, a teenager picked a name at random from 7,500 listings in the telephone directory, tried to cash a check signed K. R. Isbell in a store where the assistant manager is K. R. Isbell...
...William Lee Conley Broonzy, the business of crying the blues began when he and his twin sister Lannie were still barefoot kids scuffling in the played-out dirt around their parents' shack near Jackson, Miss. Bill pestered the owner of the general store into giving him a guitar. "Bill could play your name on it," says Lannie. "I swear he could make it talk...
...tights (variously known as leotards, leotights and legotards) got their start last fall in Eastern women's colleges, where the girls like to be demure in a worldly sort of way. This summer, after the Manhattan fashion shows, they swept the U.S. Detroit's Winkelman Bros, department store sold out its entire stock of 1,000 leotards the first week they went on sale. Boston's Filene's has stocked them on each of its seven selling floors. On one day alone, a single Manhattan newspaper carried nine ads for the tights. In Dallas, when...
...nine months a year the average art collector cannot be separated from his collection. But in summer vacation time the art turns into a burden, vulnerable to theft and damage. "Most collectors send their paintings to their favorite dealers or store them in a warehouse, or sometimes leave them locked up at home," says Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art Director James Rorimer. "We'd rather have them on our walls...
...Corporate dividends for seven months ending in July amounted to $6,271,000,-000, a decline of less than 1% from $6,312,500,000 paid out in the same period of 1957, despite all the smoke and fire over reduced earnings. ¶ Department store sales for July climbed to 140% of the 1947-49 average, up from 133% in June. At the new level sales are only four points below the alltime record set a year ago this month. ¶ Steel production was scheduled to rise for the sixth consecutive week to 61.4% of capacity, reflecting an earlier-than...