Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unhappy one. If he stops a recognized pint pitcher without cause and finds whisky, the case can be tossed out of court for lack of a search warrant. But if he goes after a warrant, the pint pitcher disappears. As fast as he raids and closes one package store, another opens. Police liquor details are inadequate; Tulsa attempts to stem a 30,000-case-per-month consumption with a three-man detail. As it was during national Prohibition, Oklahoma public opinion is more with the bootlegger than with the police...
...Colonel Sadek proclaimed that it was the "servant of imperialism." In the first few days after the assault, his "Front" managed to blow up one section of the pipeline carrying oil from Tripoli's port to Wheelus Field, had bombs thrown at Barclays Bank and a small Jewish store. The Prime Minister himself protested to the Egyptian embassy. The colonel responded by smuggling 28 cases of automatic arms into the embassy, and (said a Libyan government communique later) "incited some persons to throw bombs inside Tripoli...
...black-and-red armbands marked "26 de Julio," fired on police headquarters. At the same time they tossed grenades and gasoline bombs on the building from a nearby rooftop and burned it down, while ammunition popped inside. For a time the attackers roamed the area freely, looting a hardware store for weapons. At other towns-Holguin, Guantánamo, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara-other Castro-men rebelled...
...widow of William F. Schlemmer, longtime (1916-45) owner of Hammacher Schlemmer, Manhattan's classy housewares knickknack (sea-urchin paste, bronze fig leaves for statues) dispensary, who took over the firm, ran it for eight years after her husband's death, in 1952 named more than 100 store employees in her sizable will; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Candy Is Dandy . . . In Klamath Falls, Ore., when prisoners sent their weekly orders for cigarettes, chocolate bars and magazines to a nearby store, Jailer Fred Calfee intercepted and rejected one list: 5 Ibs. of white rice, 1 large can of pineapple juice, 2 Ibs. of seedless raisins, 10 Ibs. of sugar, 2 cakes of brewer's yeast...