Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before noon one day last week, Justice Robert H. Jackson made his final purchase in a Washington department store, got into his car and headed for the Supreme Court Building. On the way he suffered a heart attack. He drove to the nearby home of his secretary and, within minutes, Robert Houghwout Jackson was dead. In his 62 years he rose to eminence among lawyers, served with ability as U.S. Solicitor General and Attorney General, as Supreme Court Justice and as U.S. prosecutor at Nürnberg. When Jackson was named Attorney General, New Dealing Columnist Marquis Childs wrote...
First Visitor. All but a handful of Hanoi's 6,000 French merchants pulled out rather than try to do business with the Communists (see BUSINESS). Signs on shutters read: "Closed indefinitely" or "Store for Rent." Boards covered windows of the once-gay cafés fronting on the picturesque little lake in the city center, at whose tables generations of Foreign Legionnaires had drunk and sung and bragged. A few French technicians stayed behind to show the Reds how to run the utilities, and a score or so of European priests and sisters remained...
Shopping housewives had a pleasant surprise last week. Frying chickens and broilers were selling under 40? a lb. in many a store, down from about 55? a month ago. Prices of medium and small pullet eggs were also down at a time when egg and poultry prices usually rise...
...arbitrary rate of 22 Ho Chi Minh piasters to one nationalist. Prices soared. After a short period of false prosperity, while merchants sold their stocks at wild prices, all business came to a standstill. Import taxes of 30% to 40% were levied on new goods, killing off store after store. The town's two big cotton and silk mills, supplied by Japanese silk and imported cotton from the U.S., shut down because the Communists did not know how to operate them, could not get new supplies...
...tell stories. He planned to record Mexican classics and concerts, hoped to have a series of Mexican travelogues "so that the blind can appreciate the beauties they can never see." Such notables as Mexico City's Archbishop Luis Mario Martinez had given his project their blessings; a department store had offered to have a Discojos day. Then Palmer became ill again...