Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present program, which keeps grocery prices high, suffers from several undeniable weaknesses. Because the government must store the food it purchases, the plan is only feasible for non-perishable commodities; livestock raisers, fruit and vegetable growers get uncertain protection. The Secretary of Agriculture may use any extra funds available to buy perishables, but the surpluses disappear during general farm declines...
WAREHOUSE sales to clear out inventories have proved so successful that Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott department store is setting up a warehouse store on a permanent basis, thus hopes to win back some of the business lost to discount houses. The store will sell everything from TV sets to towels at bargain prices because of its low overhead, give shoppers a chance to save even more money (delivery cost ranges from $1 to $3 an item) by carrying their own purchases home...
Hall, who will receive the title of Managing Editor of the Bulletin, has been the proprietor of his own book store in Newton Centre since 1926 and has served as Circulation Manager for the magazine since 1942. He is a member of the Harvard Fund Council and acts as Class Agent for the Harvard Fund...
Experts at Hand. In Denver, State Institutions Director J. Price Briscoe admitted that Canon City prison inmates, who make jewelry and leather goods for sale in the prison store, were losing about 20% of their production to shoplifters...
...stamps, one of the most important collections ever sold publicly. Sixty expert philatelists from all over the world bid briskly with a jerk of the thumb, a murmur in any of half a dozen languages, which the auctioneer swiftly understood. Said the buyer for America's Gimbels department-store chain: "The early part of the collection of Farouk's father shows the care and feeling that marks the collector. But Farouk's contribution is just a mixed-up accumulation." Added a European dealer who used to sell to Farouk: "He was a very good customer...