Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, one of the most extraordinary extortion plots in criminal history exploded-literally-in Portland's big (twelve stories), crowded Meier & Frank department store. Just after 2 o'clock a woman had thrust through the credit window an envelope addressed to the store's president, Aaron Frank, and left. Inside the envelope was a note warning that in the block-square building were planted two bombs, the first set to explode "by the time you receive this message." As Frank was reading the note on the twelfth floor, an explosion rocked the third floor, shattering windows...
PENNY-A-PACK BOOST is in store for smokers of king-size cigarettes. American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers, and Philip Morris have increased wholesale prices as much as 40? per 1,000 (to $9.50), and retailers are expected to pass the boost on to their customers...
...present minimum wage legislation, however, exceptions ridicule the rule. Exemptions perforate Fair Labor Standards, accurately reflecting the strength of America's employer lobbies. for several million workers--laundrymen, clam diggers, tailors, delivery truck drivers--minimum wages do not exist. Although the Lehman proposal covers chain-store workers for the first time, it continues the exclusion of important groups, among them farm laborers...
...short order, Cliff Rue (a salesman at his father's liquor store) talked four friends into ponying up $40,000 to start a service called Sports Information Results. The police tapped his wires for weeks before they were satisfied that the 50 phone lines Rue wanted to put to work were not the sinews of a bookie joint...
Regardless of whether Buck refines interlibrary cooperation to reduce the number of books needed annually, or finds money with which to swell the current acquisition, he will have to find space in which to store them. Metcalf has cut the rate of growth from a four percent annually to a constant 125,000 volumes each year, but even these fill almost three miles of new shelving...