Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued, said Ogle, Dottie had one question: "How do you thank someone for a miracle-a wonderful, fantastic miracle that has changed a family's life?" One of the changes was an immediate run on her cookies. For example, within ten days, her manager reported, 65% of the stores in Omaha, Neb. were stocking her cookies. A large chain grocery store, which had turned down her cookies before, carried them in all stores within a week after the story appeared. Sales in Denver and the rest of Colorado have tripled...
...facade of the building are the bold initials G.U.M.-for Glavny Universalny Magazin (Principal Department Store). G.U.M. is Moscow's answer to Macy's, Gimbels, Sears Roebuck, Woolworth and A. & P., all rolled into one. Scheduled to open next week, but already three weeks behind schedule, it is being hailed in advance by the Soviet press as "the biggest and the best in the U.S.S.R...
...Prices in the Soviet Union have dipped substantially, but eggs still cost the equivalent of $3 a dozen, a good pair of shoes is $75. a radio $200, oranges 55? each. Yet the mere fact that G.U.M. is opening fills many with wary hope. The site that the giant store occupies was once Upper Row, the biggest shopping center in Czarist Moscow. For 25 years it had served as a labyrinthine Soviet government office: now, by restoring it as a people's shopping center, the Kremlin appears to be giving substance to its impressive promises...
...Literary Life. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Eleanor Trier told officials that she had stolen a jacket, steam iron, and skirt from a department store only because a stranger had asked her to do "research" for a book on shoplifting, promised to mention her name in the book...
Birds of a Feather. In New Orleans, Seaman Ernest McDade was arrested after he walked into a dime store, freed four canaries and nine parakeets from their cages, saying: "Come on out . . . I was in jail once. I know how you feel...