Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient, a former salesgirl in a Baltimore five-and-dime store, married young and had two children. But after each birth she had a nervous breakdown. Estranged from her husband, she had three more children illegitimately, and each time suffered what psychiatrists call a "schizophrenic reaction, catatonic type." Still only 25, she is now at Maryland's Springfield State Hospital. Her brothers and sisters and her husband agreed that for her own good she should be sterilized. In a lucid interval she agreed...
Throughout Oregon last week, milk prices were tumbling. In Salem, housewives jammed into the Nameless Food Market for milk at 10? a quart; a store on Portland's east side sold milk for 15? a quart; grocery chains and supermarkets chopped their prices 2? a quart all along the line. The cause of the big drop was an overwhelming revolt of Oregon voters against the state's 21-year-old Milk Control Law, which set strict production and distribution quotas, minimum wholesale and retail prices. The man responsible: a modest farmer named Elmer Deetz, who runs...
Actually, the battle started two years ago between Oregon's supermarkets and the State Department of Agriculture, which enforced the controls. The law that had been passed during the depression to help dairy farmers was a hard blow to store distributors. To Oregon's supermarkets, the minimum price provisions of the state law meant that they could not take advantage of the normal price differential between store-bought and home-delivered milk, thus lost a competitive advantage. In 1952, the markets spent $150,000 in a campaign to get the law repealed but lost out at the polls...
...Stadium won't be the only place in Cambridge that is sold out this weekend, as hotel clerks, dance chairmen, and liquor store proprietors are also preparing for the huge crowd that will attend the game...
Nevertheless, one local store has already made arrangements to protect its windows. In the 1950 riot, 13 Harvard and Yale students were arrested, after attacks on trolleys and trucks and the explosion of a number of firecrackers and sky-rockets...