Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wrapping up other records in the packaging boom, St. Regis Paper Co. earned $12.3 million v. $8.7 million in the first half of 1955. Continental Can Co. had a half-year record net of $14.5 million, up from $10.3 million last year. High retail sales were reflected in store profits. In its first 24 weeks of the year, Safeway Stores, Inc. netted $9.9 million v. last year's $5.6 million...
GENERAL SHOE CORP., one of biggest U.S. shoemakers (1955 sales: $167.9 million), will follow diversification trend by moving into the women's specialty store and jewelry business. For around $10 million cash, General Shoe bought 65% control of Hoving Corp. (1955 sales: $31.6 million), operators of Manhattan's Tiffany jewelry store and Bonwit Teller department-store chain. Hoving President Walter Hoving will stay on, plans no management changes...
MORE POWER PARTNERSHIP is in store for Northwest. Pacific Power & Light Co. has signed deal with Washington State's Cowlitz County Public Utility District to develop Upper Lewis River in $56.7 million project to produce 256,500 kw. by 1958. Pacific Power & Light will build and own main dam and powerhouse producing 189,000 kw., while PUD will spend $15 million on smaller, 67,500-kw. downstream powerhouse, get 26% of overall power produced...
...packed a gun or tipped a glass in four years. But Glenn breaks out in a sweat whenever anybody mentions the shooting over at Silver Rapids. What's worse, he doesn't even pitch horseshoes with the old gang any more. Finally he bolts from the store, jounces into the saloon and announces, "I would like to go out of my mind." With the help of a bottle of raw hooch, he darn near does. Then, to the astonishment of everyone, he blurts: "I'm the fastest gun alive!" and promptly sets out to prove...
Ella grows up to a joyless marriage to a decent local grocer. She tends store, she raises her nephews, she keeps house and plays bridge when she has to. But her neighbors bore her, the birth of a daughter fails to enrich her unsmiling nature, and neither good times nor bad, drought nor plenty seem to offer any real excuse for living. Author Siebel kills off her characters with adding-machine indifference. Mother goes. Then the favorite nephew dies in World War II. Finally, Ella herself methodically swallows a bottle of sleeping pills, rinses her water glass, and lies down...