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Word: stores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clothing store recently expanded, adding a Mt. Auburn entrance to its Dunster St. location...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Store Proprietors Doubt Need for Eviction | 2/19/1954 | See Source »

Disregarding the fact that fat men are funny by definition, Slezak performs nobly as Joseph, one of a trio of convicts who attempt to solve the problems of the Ducotel family. Losing money at an alarming rate, Felix Ducotel's general store in the French penal colony is soon to be closed by Henri Trochard, the prototype of a heartless capitalist. To add insult to bankruptcy, Ducotel's daughter is hopelessly in love with Trochard's nephew, who can only marry on the pain of disinheritance. At this point, it might be said with some justification that this is nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Three Angels | 2/17/1954 | See Source »

...reductions were unwise. "In any line," Humpherys said, "you can't sell merchandise for what you pay for it." On the other hand, John H. Waugh, manager of Minute Man Radio Co., has defended the new price decreases as wise in its policy, and has slashed prices at his store up to 40 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Prize War Continues But Merchants Predict End | 2/16/1954 | See Source »

Comedian Skelton is cast as Ambrose, a second-chisel man in a big Manhattan jewelry store, a diamond cutter whose tragedy is that he just buffs up the big ones for somebody else to blast. The big one in question is a stupendous rock called "The Blue Goddess." and some chiselers of another sort than Ambrose are interested in her. A foundling who has searched all his life for his parents, Ambrose thinks he has found them at last. Actually, he has run into a couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Cold Facts. In San Bernardino, Calif., clever burglars removed the electric fuses in John B. Rapier's store, were caught red-handed when Rapier appeared from his living quarters to see why his electric blanket had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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