Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on the lack of salesmen . . . is a joy to one who has recently been promising herself that she would buy a police whistle, take her stand in a store, and blow it for help...
While shoppers at Omaha's Hinky Dinky supermarket stared in some amazement one morning last week, six purposeful housewives, members of the local women's club, invaded the store in squad formation, loaded three wire pushcarts with groceries, and then posed with the collection for the benefit of news photographers. In Chicago's Morgan Park neighborhood, 17 of her club women gathered for a similar rite around $1,265 worth of furniture. The pushcarts full of food were symbolic of hidden and direct taxes extracted from an average paycheck each year-enough to buy groceries...
GRAIN storage space, short already, is expected to be so scarce when this year's crops are harvested that it may turn into as big a political problem as it was in 1948. Since farmers must store grain in Government-approved places to get crop loans, the Agriculture Department has been lining up unused airplane hangars, Army barracks, even deserted movie houses, to use in a pinch...
Since its inception, the Window Shop has continued to welcome these displaced persons, many of whom began work unable to speak English. Channeled in by church groups and welfare agencies, immigrants spent in this store the years needed to gain citizenship. Here, a combination of German and English helped case them into the American culture. Transforming lawyer to chef, college student to salesgirl, for some the shop was merely an orientation center; but many have remained there permanently...
...newcomers grew, the Window Shop expanded proportionately. Started in a tiny room on Church Street, it was a women's exchange where refugee wives could sell embroidery, lacework, or pastry. Its only distinguishing feature was the large window after which the shop was named. A modest success, the store soon moved to larger quarters, finally settling on Brattle Street in the Blacksmith's Shop immortalized by Long fellow. Now employing over sixty workers, the Window Shop has seven small dining rooms, a gift and dress store, and a bakery...