Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equal" wings. For food, Negroes queued up at small Negro-owned markets or shared rides to neighboring Auburn and Columbus. Tuskegee's Fortune Fish Market shut down. Then Cooper's Market, on the town square, folded, along with a Texaco service station and the David Lee Clothing Store. White clerks began counting their days at idle five-and-ten counters. Some clerks lost their jobs. Merchants advertised special sales, open credit, looked in vain for expected "sympathy motorcades" of white shoppers from other Alabama towns. Says Proprietor L. M. Hill, who is closing his shoe store: "What...
Montini and his helpers concentrated on Milan's 600,000 office, shop and factory workers. He whirled through the Rinascente department store, the stock exchange, three banks. To Sputnik-struck hearers, he praised Russia's technical success, then won a thunder of applause with a blow for the Lord ("Beyond scientific reality there is a divine reality"). Everywhere Montini pleaded: "Come to our mission and hear us.' What are we talking about? The usual things? Yes, but do you really know them? The same old story? Yes, but better say the eternal story. Useless matters? No, useful...
...increased dividends by only 2.2% (to 14.1%), retained the bulk of their earnings. As for Japan's consumers, heavy savings from past years (12% of disposable income v.7% in the U.S.) plus a near-record 371 million-bu. rice crop give them plenty of money to spend. Department store sales are up 23% for 1957 despite the credit pinch, and in one rice-rich village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan, the population of 300 families bought 300 motorcycles, 300 electric washing machines, and five electric refrigerators last month alone...
...Geraldine Veronica ("Jerry") Stutz, 33, vice president since 1955 of I. Miller retail stores, 17-store subsidiary of General Shoe Corp., one of the world's largest shoe companies, was named president of Henri Bendel Inc., swank Manhattan specialty store with annual sales volume of about $5,000,000. She succeeds Ben Willingham, General Shoe vice president on temporary loan to Bendel, who will remain as director. Tall (5 ft. 6 in.), svelte (no Ibs.) and unmarried, Jerry Stutz was educated in Chicago's St. Scholastica convent school, won a dramatics scholarship to Mundelein College, where she switched...
...body of Larry Shelvey was found by Princeton police officers in an alleyway between the Colonial Bakery and Zinder's Store. He was taken to the Princeton Hospital where police surgeon P. C. Tan gave the boy emergency treatment...