Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of 1,200 trailers sprang up almost overnight. In nearby Augusta, Ga., whose population shot from 71,040 to 150,000 in two years, it was easy to forget the plant's grim purpose in the flood of new jobs it brought. When White's Department Store hung out a Christmas sign, "Santa Claus Is Here!", Reporter Esther Young of the Augusta Chronicle cracked: "Why, everybody knows that Santa Claus is over at the H-bomb plant's pay windows...
...Little Knowledge. In Paris, Charles Fossez, 51, who as "Zakir Birman" once made a business of foretelling the future, committed suicide, left a note explaining that he could not face what life had in store...
...Nuts?" Next morning Rozella was on the telephone to Luther Palmer, the manager of the C. R. Anthony Department Store. "Luther," she said, "would you spend 50 bucks to help stop a war that's going to cost billions?" "Are you nuts?" snapped Luther. Replied Rozella: "We've got a chance to whip some Communists, and all we have to do is act like Christians." She urged Luther to "act" by kicking in for winter clothes. In some bewilderment he agreed. Then Rozella called up other merchants-J. C. McDonnell Co., J. C. Penney, Morris & Sons-and told...
OCTOBER-Fluid Capital. In Memphis, Goldsmith's Department Store accepted a check drawn on the "East Bank of the Mississippi...
...Premier browbeat some segments of industry into chopping prices (wholesale prices dropped 7.7%). He poked into shops and department stores to watch prices and buying habits. In one food store, he watched as a shopkeeper cut a Camembert cheese in half and then priced each half differently. "Always-you hear me, always," Pinay reported indignantly, "the women asked for the more expensive piece." The story is told that Pinay, unable one weekend to get his customary haircut at St. Chamond, went to a Paris barber, and was shocked when he was charged twice what he usually paid back home...