Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time the year before, but stocks rose $600 million from December to January. Said the department: "Inventory-cutting looks as if it is ended." As a measure of how well goods are moving, during the first week in March carloadings rose 11.6% over a year ago; department-store sales did even better, going up 15% above the same week a year...
...obvious that your reporter did his browsing in the A & P and found Tobacco Road on display with all the cigars and cigarettes. I wonder if he asked the store manager, "What is happening to the old-fashioned U.S. grocery store...
...week's end, Clem Attlee felt impelled to make it clear that the vast majority of the British Labor Party supports the Tory decision to use H-bombs if necessary. Addressing the Oxford University Labor Club, Attlee also advised all those, including Churchill and Bevan, who set such store by Big Three talks: "It's no good going to the Kremlin and thinking you can read them the Sermon on the Mount . . . They are tough people, and they certainly don't believe in moral sentiments. Everything they do is for self-interest, and one has to face...
...sharply etched image on nearly every page. A woman emerges from childbirth feeling "like a huge sea shell washed up by the highest wave, empty but still ringing from the tides." There are trees hung with grey moss "like . . . the wigs of old witches" and an old-fashioned store that is full of "ribbon, cloth and clean middle-aged ladies: dry goods, indeed." The shining words of this gifted writer often appear on obvious and outsized mountings. The last man on earth thinks things over; sometimes he's happy, sometimes he's blue (5,000 words). A little...
...impossible to check every advertiser. One of the best ways to end bait advertising was used by Denver's Better Business Bureau. It hired a man with a sandwich board ("Don't get hooked by phony wholesale offers") to parade outside the advertiser's store and warn customers not to go in. It worked: the dealer closed...