Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this quake was another fault heard from, traced it to the granddaddy of all California fault lines, the San Andreas fault. CalTech warned that Southern California could look forward to minor settling shocks for at least a year. Most natives reacted much like the owner of a Bakersfield camera store. He hung a sign in his store window on which he had written his home telephone number and the challenge: "Let Her Shake...
...church (three times on Sundays and once at midweek). Nixon played the piano for Sunday school, still plays occasionally to relax ("I'm'not as good as President Truman"). He worked his way through Whittier College (present enrollment: 1,200), mostly by helping out in the family store as cashier and delivery boy. Occasionally he helped his mother do the dishes. She recalls: "Richard always pulled the blinds down tight so that people wouldn't see him with his hands in a dishpan...
...Nixon repaired and pressed the clothes for the whole family, worked in the store during the day, and at night thriftily emptied the shelves of fruit that might spoil in another day and baked it into pies, which she put on sale in the morning. Occasionally she would catch shoplifters, but, instead of turning them over to the police, she would give them a little sermon, always aware that the disgrace of an arrest would hurt their families. Her son reflects that feeling. "Even when I was convinced that Hiss was a traitor," says Nixon, "I couldn't help...
...council upheld Salati's assessments. Then a strange thing occurred in the quiet town of Guastalla. Businessmen and shopkeepers called for a six-hour strike against Salati. Every bar and shop in town closed. Local factories sent their workers home. Buses ceased running. Even the Communist-run cooperative store shut its door (for this, Manager Affro Tavernelli was later relieved of his party card). Guastalla became a ghost town...
...houses -more, in both cases, than in 1952. Businessmen got the same sort of sounding. Dun & Bradstreet polled 1,277 key manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, found that 61% of them expect last-quarter sales to top the same period in 1951. One hopeful bellwether: mail-order and chain-store sales in July were 8% ahead of last year...