Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to talk to you about the people who run their own farms, keep store, work for themselves. These people are an issue in this campaign . . . They are in danger of being swallowed up by big corporations in alliance with big government in a world which has become dangerously indifferent to the fate of the little man. This threat of bigness shows itself in many forms. It shows itself in the struggle of the farmer to survive-in the fact that the family farmer in many parts of our country has his back to the wall...
...Charged (with Harry S. Truman grinning happily on the platform beside him) that President Eisenhower was guilty of buck-passing and ducking the responsibilities of leadership: "Who's in charge here, anyway? Who, in this businessman's Administration, keeps the store...
...prove his point, Bender was on the road last week as he had been for months before. One day started at 8:30 a.m., took Bender through seven counties, meeting with local Republican leaders, answering questions at high-school assemblies, bouncing into stores, banks, barbershops and courthouses to invite the occupants out to hear him speak on street corners. At every country store with a few cars parked outside, he stopped, entered, shook hands all around, and said: "I'm U.S. Senator Bender. I happen to be touring in your neighborhood and stopped by to say hello...
...bulk of the sales still are made in the nation's 5,000 record shops. Therefore record companies are subsidizing modernization of the cluttered shops to gear them to the new market. Columbia, RCA and Decca give free advice on store design, help dealers buy materials. Says RCA Vice President Lawrence Kanaga: "Gone are the days when the record shop was like a library where a customer really had to know his music. We're changing it into a supermarket where a buyer does not have to worry about mispronouncing Beethoven...
Pale Cast of Thought. In Kansas City, Mo., a would-be stickup man waved a gun at Grocery Checker Mrs. Thelma Adams, thought things over for a moment, fled the store after muttering: "No, I guess it's not a holdup...