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Word: stores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dream," fumes Walter, "and his wife says, 'Eat your eggs.' " Walter has the money virus; he is feverish for a partnership in a liquor store. But all the Younger dreams revolve around the $10,000 insurance money that widowed Mother is to receive. When the fateful check arrives, Mother asks little Travis to count the zeros, and then plunks down $3,500 in part payment for a house in the suburbs-an all-white suburb, as it happens. After a thwarted Walter takes to drink, and lets his pregnant wife consult an abortionist, Mother Younger gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Department store sales across the nation rose 5% above a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The 4,749,000 Problem | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Many Books? As of this week, the boys were mum about their financial backing, but one known angel is Investor Richard Ernst, a former Knopf employee (in the sales department) who is married to Department Store Heiress Susan Bloomingdale. As for father Knopf, 66, he had no comment on his son's exodus. A publisher who has often complained that the trade is turning out far too many books, Knopf Sr. only said: "There have always been new firms, and I guess this will be a good one," As for Pat, 41, he seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enter Pat & Pals | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...picture above, customer, store manager, and salesman discuss the sale of a television set. The film's plot concerns store's use of advertising "comeon" which turn out to be fictional or misleading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Division Makes 15 Minute Film for 'Case Study' | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

...Three patrolmen were arrested after a rookie saw them walk away from a Manhattan shoe store where one door lock had been removed and a second tampered with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Bad Cops | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

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