Word: stores
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Among the seven new Republican Senators are some men of tested high caliber, notably, Kentucky's scholarly John Sherman Cooper, who unseated Senator Thomas Underwood. Still others among the seven show promise, e.g., Arizona's Barry Goldwater, a department-store operator who ousted grey, quiet Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, and Michigan Representative Charles E. Potter, who unseated Senator Blair Moody. In some states, the Eisenhower landslide failed to pull in strong Republican candidates. In New Mexico, Ike almost tugged Pat Hurley (Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover) across the line, but Hurley finally lost to Senator Dennis Chavez...
Billy's parents, Cyrene and Annette Lucas, spent about $30,000 seeking medical help for him. (Cyrene Lucas, a clerk in the family's San Francisco cigar store, had to have a lot of help from relatives to pay the bills.) It looked as though Billy had cerebral palsy, but recently, at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, tests showed no damage to Billy's brain. A visiting British neurologist thereupon had a hunch...
When darkness fell on Halloween, the small fry of Ferndale, Mich. (pop. 29,675) were out on the town as usual. They roamed the streets and pushed at doorbells; they begged for cookies and smeared the store windows with slogans written in soap. But one window they steadfastly refused to touch. On the morning after the big night, the plate glass of the Higgins-Pontiac showroom was, as always, clean...
Growth Ahead. But most of the gains were due to better civilian business. New York department-store sales, which had been running below 1951, spurted ahead of last year's sales, and merchants were predicting a record Christmas trade. Last week the kingpin auto industry finished its biggest month's production (610,676 units) in 16 months, and got the promise of bigger steel allotments in 1953's first quarter. Steelmen themselves reported enough orders to keep their mills at capacity production for at least five months. The big rise all around was reflected by the Commerce...
...Call. In Brooklyn, Stanley Cohen told police he received a phone tip that his hardware store was being robbed, rushed down to investigate, was met by two men who forced him to open the safe and took...