Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hughes of the Library of Congress staff last year, Dewey Short now spends most of his evenings at home preparing lectures to supplement his salary. His chief political cross: his brother Leonard, who was killed trying to break jail in Muskogee, Okla. after having been convicted for a grocery store robbery...
...only suggested the show to the Addison Gallery's Curator Charles H. Sawyer but contributed to the catalogue an article, Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast, that shone gemlike from its pages. Its simplicity was fitting because Maurice Prendergast was a simple man. While working in a Boston dry goods store as a boy, he made his first sketches of women's dresses that stood about the shop. "Nothing amused his eyes," says Van Wyck Brooks, "more than a pretty dress, blue, green, yellow or old rose, as one saw in all his pictures to the end of his life...
...Fields (Sat. 10 p. m. CBS), sponsored by Lucky Strike, makes his debut as Larsen Whipsnead, who wins a department store in a golf match, loses its business and his composure running...
From London last week came an indication of how deeply dreaded and how widely expected is war from the air. Officials of the London Zoo ordered deep pits dug under the Zoo gardens to store the more valuable animals, gave keepers rifles to shoot any that might escape from bomb-damaged cages, ordered all poisonous snake; and spiders killed immediately war began
Statistical answers were preponderantly optimistic. Engineering construction awards of $49,229,000 were 16% over the same week in 1937. Carloadings, risen 2.3% from the previous week, were still off about 20% from last year. Store sales, off 12% fortnight ago, were only down 6% from 1937 last week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce declared: "All of the evidence points to some improvement in business. ... It is too early to know the strength present trends will develop. ..." The New York Times was less optimistic. Its business index fell and when commercial, industrial and agricultural loans by New York member banks...