Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing to the arcade, the four men scaled a 6-ft. gate and entered the second jewelry store. There they scooped up another $140,000 worth and found the keys to yet another Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' store. Next stop: Regent Street, branch No. 3, and the biggest haul of all-jewelry worth $420,000 and keys to the associate jewelry firm of Arthur H. Drew Ltd. in Victoria Street...
Only next morning when store managers opened up for the day were the raids discovered. Unhappily, Scotland Yardmen, after a week of fruitless investigation, admitted they could only hope for a "snout" -someone who might be tempted into talking by an insurance company reward of $28,000. They admitted, too, to a touch of regret over the new, vice-free state of London's streets. "Those girls always helped us," confided one Yardman. "They were our eyes and ears when we weren't around. This haul couldn't have been made in the bad old days...
...thrilled I didn't really know what I was buying!" exclaimed a fluttery shopper after leaving a dress shop in Topeka, Kans. She had just been waited on by the newest of the store's dozen saleswomen: temporarily retired Cinemactress Gene Tierney, 38, off and on for several years a voluntary patient in private mental hospitals. Now an outpatient in Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic, where she spent eight months last year' Gene would not discuss her courageous venture in occupational therapy. But her boss allowed: "She's doing a beautiful job. And she certainly...
...filler item on annual steel production in the U.S., the Times misquoted a single digit; five readers called in triumphantly with the correction. When an ad erroneously quoted a can of tuna at 7? instead of 17?, penny-watching pensioners bought 6,960 cans in six hours; the store billed the Times $696 for the mistake...
...with a floor of 65% of parity. This year market prices are poor. Farm storage space is already so taxed that farmers will have to sell much of their crop in the open market at prices as low as 90? per bu., for the lack of a place to store it. Averaged over three years, the lower prices mean that a 4?-to-6? drop is possible next year in the price-support level...