Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funeral directors' trade journal. His mother, Anna Driscoll Mitchell, now 74, is still living in Elizabeth. Cinemactor Thomas (High Noon) Mitchell is his uncle. Graduated from Elizabeth's Battin High School in 1917, could not afford to go to college, got a job in a grocery store...
...full-page ads last week, Manhattan's downtown bargain store, S. Klein's, blared the message 100,000 DIAMONDS-EVERY SINGLE ONE PRICED AT LESS THAN DEALER'S ORIGINAL WHOLESALE COST. When Klein's doors opened, its Union Square store was besieged by milling throngs of diamond-hunters. By nightfall, some 6,000 shoppers had trooped in, and a large part of the $500,000 worth of jewels had been sold...
Counter Coverage. Chicago's Carson, Pirie Scott & Co. became the first U.S. department store to sell all types of insurance over the counter. Shoppers can buy protection for anything from their cars to their lives, pay premiums through Carson's regular charge accounts and deferred payment plans. For 50? a week, a customer can insure himself (for $500) against death while traveling. Another policy will insure shoppers' purchases before they are taken out of the store...
Sister Transistor. General Electric announced a tiny electronic capacitor that is designed to work as a companion to the transistor. About as big as a kernel of corn (and about a quarter the size of the smallest capacitor G.E. has turned out so far). the new capacitor can store energy and release it later when needed. Made mostly of silver and tantalum, it filters electric current, eliminating interference and improving the tone of such devices as miniature radios and hearing aids. Price: about...
Identification. In Lafayette, Ind., thieves broke into a clothing store, stole $18 worth of boys' sport shirts, each emblazoned with the legend: "I'm a Little Stinker...