Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vigilante. In St. Louis, police booked Willie Smith for burglary despite his plea that he had entered a liquor store after hours only to chase out two thieves...
...modest homes gleaming with new paint, and front yards trimmed to the quick. Work was rushed on the new elementary school so that the famous guest could dedicate it. The night before the big day, the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators of Rummels' appliance store on Main Street. At mid-morning the ladies began carrying the food to a special luncheon tent, along with 60 fried chickens, cords of fresh sweet corn, and the 100-egg birthday cake baked...
Next day Dr. Summerskill poked through Moscow's maternity hospital and the new GUM department store, which she found "absolutely terrific." At Moscow's towering new university building, Nye Bevan asked the Russian provost if Communism was a compulsory course. It was. "Suppose," persisted Nye, "that I did not want to take Communism?" The provost smiled broadly. "You would take it anyway," he said...
...Some ants are harvesters: they husk, store and dry seeds of grain, cutting roads six inches wide through vegetation to reach their crops. Most harvest ants march out together to gather the seeds, then straggle back with their burdens. Some ants which return without grain apparently feel embarrassed, pick up a useless pebble or a fallen petal and carry it along for show until they get home...
...SCHULTE STORES may follow the cigar-store Indian into oblivion. General Stores Corp. will sell off its 145 D.A. Schulte cigar stores around the U.S., hopes to replace them with six super-drugstore chains in addition to the two (Chicago's Ford Hopkins and Stineway) that it now owns...