Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Producer Jed Harris may put on the long-promised Thornton Wilder play, Emporium, a story of a symbolic department store; Harris will also direct Paddy Chayefsky's prize ring drama, Fifth from Garibaldi...
...Mennonites) wear wide-brimmed black hats, plain black suits, and beards; the women, plain bonnets and voluminous clothes. For some 35,000 thrifty, hard-working Amish folk, living mostly in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, the Devil is a sleepless foe, whom they dodge by foregoing automobiles, plumbing, cosmetics, store-bought underwear, high-school education and all manner of frivolity. Amish folk seldom break through the black homespun that seems to divide them from their neighbors, but when they do, outsiders get a glimpse of the strange life behind the curtain. Last week Hazleton, Iowa (pop. 550) was still agitated...
President Harry Schacter of the Kaufman-Straus department store in Louisville was only an observer at the annual meeting of the Friends of Kentucky Libraries. But the facts he heard from the Friends disturbed him. In library service, he learned, no state except North Dakota ranks lower than Kentucky: 80% of its rural population gets no such service at all. By the time the meeting was over, Harry Schacter had an idea...
...necessary to buy copies of the Mirror to win an award. You may inspect a copy of the paper free . . ." But all over the Mirror circulation area, and as far away as Miami, Fla. (where a treasure hunter spotted a Lucky Buck originally spent in a White Plains store), people were buying the tabloid to compare its numbers with their dollars. Lucky Bucks not redeemed in seven days lost their magic; after that, they were worth 100 cents...
...foods, ranging from applesauce and peanut butter to French dressing and puddings. About 80% of U.S. supermarkets have added dietetic departments featuring low-calorie foods. Their sales total some $25 million a year, and within a decade, the industry thinks, volume should hit $140 million. Said one Seattle chain-store manager last week: "All you have to do to sell an item to a housewife now is put the magic word 'nonfattening...