Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proper Climate. In Tulsa, the Jenkins appliance store filled its display windows with air conditioners, watched a blizzard drop temperatures from springlike warmth to a record low for the date, posted an abject apology: "Sorry for the change . . . We left one of those conditioners on over the weekend...
...Filene Sons Co. asked it to adapt one of its stylish house dresses into a white graduation dress for a class of Boston nurses. Soon after that, White Swan's President Leo M. Cooper picked up a 300-dozen order for similar uniforms from a Chicago department store. That opened his eyes. By talking to nurses, Cooper learned that they were tired of staid, formless garments. Says Cooper: "The nurse is a woman first and a nurse after." White Swan doubled, then tripled its first line of four uniform styles; orders poured in so fast that...
...cannot record what he sees, however, since the eye does not store an image and the brain does not act fast enough to remember it accurately. This is why astronomers do not agree about the famous Martian canals. Some have seen them; some have not, even in years of trying. No one has ever taken a photograph of them...
Rising Orders. Orders were up-all around. They were the highest in 17 months for machine tools, the highest in 15 months for heavy construction, and 16% above a year ago for furniture. Sales were also up. The nation's department-store sales outstripped the same 1954 week by 14%. Wages were at a peak; the average U.S. worker with three dependents took home $69.17 weekly, 55? more than ever before in history. In Wall Street the Dow-Jones industrial average, reacting to the news, recorded the second sharpest rise of the year, recovered more than...
Rush Hour. In San Francisco, Gunman Jack M. Love, 29, complained to police that before he was able to rob the Carmel Liquors Store of $64, he not only had to wait for the customers to leave, but also to outwait a rival who was hanging around for the same purpose...