Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt could raise its food output 30%, Syria 143%, Iraq 183%. Lebanon 37%. One difficulty is that in the vast dry-land area between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, only one of six major rivers-Lebanon's Litani-runs its entire length within a single country. To store and use the 44 billion cubic feet of water that the Jordan River pours annually into the Dead Sea, for example, would require an agreement between Israel, Syria and Jordan. On the Jordan, a solution to the thousand-year water problem could bring not only economic survival but peace...
...Personal income last week was estimated to be running at an annual rate of $283 billion, only 1½% off the alltime high of $287.5 billion, set in July 1953. Department-store sales gained 3% over sales for the same week of 1953, and unemployment-compensation claims eased off again...
Department-store sales were also up 4% over last year. Despite the heavier buying, the Securities & Exchange Commission announced that individual savings during 1954's first quarter reached $3.3 billion, the highest savings in a postwar first quarter, and up $900 million from...
Some Southern stores are also beginning to pull down the barriers, e.g., quietly passing the word that from now on Negroes are to be addressed as "Mr." and "Mrs." One Birmingham store has abandoned the practice of tagging "col" on charge-a-plates. In Dallas Negro women are now permitted to try on hats and dresses...
Little Caesar. In East Providence. R.I.. attempting to hold up a hardware store. Joseph Reposa was recognized by the proprietor, had his rusty, unloaded gun snatched from him, found his getaway...