Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months after he became a man, John got his feet out from under his father's table. He went to work in a brother-in-law's general store, and soon afterward decided to go in business for himself. Sussex County is chicken country, and John thought Millsboro needed a chicken-feed supplier. He and a brother borrowed a few hundred dollars, part from their father, part from a bank, and started the Millsboro Feed Co. It was no bonanza, but it grew steadily. At 19, John married Elsie Steele, a farm girl. In the early years...
Fluid Capital. In Memphis, Goldsmith's Department Store accepted a check drawn on the "East Bank of the Mississippi...
Most of his early life was spent in his family's grocery store in East Whittier, he said. "The only reason we were able to make it go was because my mother and dad had five boys and we all worked in the store...
While the patient is burning fat, the body demands water and stores it up. This phase usually lasts two to three days after a severe operation; it may last five. But before the first week is out, the process normally begins to reverse itself, presumably because the hormone switches have been flicked. The patient than gets hungry. He needs fat and carbohydrates from food to provide calories. He starts to take up nitrogen and rebuild muscle protein at the same prodigious rate as a one-year-old (suggesting that the growth hormone may have been switched on). The need...
...such rigid cost-cutting and cautious retrenchment, Avery has developed what Chicagoans laughingly refer to as "the only bank in the world with a store front." He has built up Ward's cash reserves and Government securities to a towering $230 million. Ward's owes no money. Since 1945, unlike other big stores, it has used its own cash to finance credit for its customers (present total: $164 million), pay for its inventories (now $275 million...