Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leonard Henry Knopf, 52, is the world's decalcomania*king. Housewives use plastic or paper decals to decorate kitchen and nursery walls. Small fry, who call decals "cockomamies," paste them on their arms to simulate tattoos. Businessmen use them in hundreds of ways: for trademarks on vending machines, store windows and products; for instructions on tractors, life rafts and planes (a 6-29 requires 2,700 decals); for tax stamps on cigarette packages. Even casketmakers...
...William Russell Grace a refugee from the Irish potato famine and a partner in a small ship chandler's store seven miles from Lima, Peru, changed trades. He decided that he could make more money selling guano fertilizer (bird droppings) than from ship supplies He was right. By the time he died in 1904. his W. R. Grace & Co. was a multimillion-dollar empire whose ship lines, sales agencies, railroads and import-export business touched almost every town and hamlet along South America's west coast...
...Francisco, when a youthful gunman walked into his store. Liquor Store Operator Thomas Lagios groaned: "Oh. no. not again' was told: "Yeah, again." by the bandit, who cleaned the cash register of $64, ordered Lagios into a back room where he piled ten cases of beer on top of him-for the second time in two days...
Then Carl put the pistol to his own temple, but three times it misfired. He walked to a nearby sporting-goods store and bought a new box of cartridges. In the basement of a nearby grocery, he reloaded and tried to kill himself once more. Again the gun missed fire...
Grocery supermarkets stole a leaf from the dime stores when they began stocking their shelves with such traditional dime-store items as buttons, cosmetics and toothpaste. Last week, the nation's biggest dime-store chain snatched back. Near Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, an apartment-city of some 26,000 inhabitants, F. W. Woolworth opened a self-service store where shoppers picked prepriced wares from clerkless counters, supermarket fashion, toted them in fabric baskets to wrapping and checkout counters. Customers seemed to like it, said they saved time by not having to wait for a salesgirl. Woolworth, which finds...