Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raised to the station in life that a Rockefeller should be . . . A Rockefeller wasn't born to be raised on a farm." She said she will not tell little Winnie that he is a millionaire: "He grabs at everything in sight at the toy store, [but] I tell him: 'We can't afford it, dear.'" Bobo described herself as broke, an installment-plan buyer, knee-deep in cooking and other menial household chores. When told that her husband's lawyers had said that Winthrop had given her a tax-free $128,000 since their separation...
...black sod. Ike perched on the top of the back seat of a green Cadillac convertible and was driven out through the crowds, smiling and waving. The car turned up toward Abilene's business district, past the "Welcome Home Ike" banners on every lamppost and in every store window. It stopped on Northwest Third Street at the Sunflower Hotel, a plain, eight-story square brick building which is Abilene's only skyline...
...rained in torrents while every eye in town watched the clock hands turn toward 5 o'clock, the time for Ike's big, nationwide TV and radio speech from Eisenhower Park. Ike's old high-school friend, Howard Keel, ran down to his clothing store, snatched 26 raincoats off a rack and hustled them up to the sixth floor of the Sunflower for the official party. He knew Ike's size-42-without asking. And to keep the rain off Ike's glasses, Howard lent his own broad-brimmed hat to the candidate...
...numerous stock averages (the New York Herald Tribune's), its gains for the week put the market at a new 21-year high. Moreover, startled merchants were finding that business, far from looking like '49, in some cases was even better than 1951. For example, U.S. department-store sales for May were 3% higher than last year...
Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor department store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D Frank Pace Jr., Secretary of the Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D.Sc...