Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contest Cheater. The son of a Russian-born Bronx cigar-store keeper, Matusow emerged from World War II as a staff sergeant. He was intrigued by Communist ideas, mainly insofar as they concerned male-female relationships. In 1947 he joined the party. He was not a success : his one minor triumph as a Communist eventually helped get him kicked out of the party...
Pride's early promise was such that he was among the handful of Reserve officers accepted in the postwar Navy. He was assigned to the battleship Arizona, in charge of a small air unit. His first planes were French Nieuports-war relics with the reliability of dime-store watches. They took off from a short runway built over the Arizona's forward gun turret; it was a good way to end up in the drink, and at least once, Pride did. There was little improvement when Pride's outfit got British Sopwith Camels. Recalls Pride: "When they...
Next afternoon, while Faure, 46, was busy practicing target shooting in the basement of a sporting-goods store, his seconds called on Servan-Schreiber at his editorial office, announced stiffly that Monsieur Faure, "esteeming himself offended, demands apologies or reparations." Editor Servan-Schreiber, complaining gloomily that "this is all such 19th century stuff," found a pair of seconds, one of them his onetime commanding officer in the Free French Air Force. Actually, duels (with pistols), though often banned in France's gallant and tempestuous history, are by no means uncommon even in present-day France, particularly with newspaper editors...
...many of the junior G-Men, for example, know how to lift a decent fingerprint from a dirty fragment of glass? Certainly very few--and fewer still could trace the box of matches found beneath a charred board back to the store where it was purchased...
...transport goods faster, thus cut down on expensive inventories and release valuable working capital for other uses. Warehousing and packaging costs can be cut; pilferage and damage are less of a problem, cutting insurance costs. By flying, a St. Louis shoe manufacturer has reduced inventories 50% for its store chain across the U.S., finds that savings are 3½ times the increased transportation costs. But most companies use air freight only for emergency orders or occasional shipments of highly perishable or specialized items (from ladybugs to engine parts) where time is a big factor...