Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the huge store, the crowd was so thick that the militia stood by to keep order. Peasants in tanned-sheepskin coats and felt boots, city matrons in mouton-collared coats stared in awe at yard upon gleaming yard of silks and satins produced by Soviet textile plants. In the 36 years of Communist rule, they had never seen anything like...
...textile sale at G.U.M., Moscow's massive principal department store, was the flashiest display yet in the new Soviet campaign to bolster morale at home with consumer goods long denied by the bleak succession of five-year plans. G.U.M. has been thronged by 125,000 to 200,000 lookers and shoppers a day since it opened three months ago in a Red Square building that looks more like the Louvre than a department store...
...drive was not confined to G.U.M. Another big department store attracted thousands of women with a big poster displaying a pretty girl with deeply penciled eyebrows and rouged cheeks advertising...
Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill. World War II intensified his hunger for expression, fame, applause and riches. In 1943, after four years of clerking in a men's clothing store, he joined the Army Air Force as an aviation cadet. At Minnesota's St. John's University, where he took preliminary training, he wrote, produced and acted in two U.S.O. variety shows which convulsed the uncritical birdmen-to-be. He went on to Tulare and Taft, Calif., but was a clumsy pilot. He soloed but was washed out during primary training (although he sometimes claims, in moments of imaginative...
...likely buys. Not long ago, such a huge crop would have meant vast surpluses, and the dumping of millions of bushels of fruit into Florida's lakes and rivers. But "this year, almost every orange and grapefruit will be sold at good prices−or at least safely stored in cans for future sale. For this happy prospect, citrus men can thank the $132 million frozen-concentrate industry, which in a few short years has leveled out the feast & famine industry by dotting the green landscape with 22 vast brick and aluminum cold-storage warehouses. Having poured millions into...