Word: stores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ohio's Author-Farmer Louis Bromfield appeared in a Columbus department store to peddle a new brand of fertilizer ("Fertileze") he had helped develop. Tired and jittery after coping with would-be customers, he decided one day was enough ("Too many questions to be answered"), went straight back to Malabar Farm...
...booklet describes FCDA's sketchy tests held last spring at Yucca Flat, Nevada (TIME, March 30). Two "typical" frame houses, densely populated with department-store dummies, were exposed to the heat, radiation and blast of an AEC "nuclear diagnostic device" on a 300-ft. tower. In their basements and dug into nearby desert were various shelters, also inhabited by dummies...
...Hard Way. In Los Angeles, after police refused to admit him to the city jail, Raymond Tanori smashed a liquor-store window, was duly arrested, given 30 days behind bars...
Trail Blazer. In Kansas City, Mo., cops had no trouble following the trail of Earl Dean Thompson, 32, who heaved a hammer through a plate-glass store window, rammed his auto into a parked car, veered off and jumped the curb, struck two trees, drove back onto the street, smashed into a corner stoplight...
Private Industry. In Moscow, Soviet officials revealed that a wine-store manager in the Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic had been convicted of cheating the state of 120,000 rubles by selling bootleg vodka...