Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through country villages and old storerooms picking up examples of every type. Some of the best go back to New England craftsmen who specialized in one-of-a-kind carvings: turbaned sultans and fez-topped Turks, girls in daring short skirts, ballplayers, cops, firemen, sailors and even replicas of store owners, as well as Indian sachems. After 1850, the demand was so great that some of the more popular models were in mass production...
...announcement, a knock on the door, something falling, or a car honking below. Hacks may be small, such as a slight mistake in wording an announcement. And hacks may be heinous, such as forgetting a plug or mis-naming a record or forgetting to give record credits to the store lending records for a show. And there are tech hacks too; when the P.M. announces "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", for instance, and the tech girl plays "Blue Skies"; or when a record starts with an eerie screetch, or when a 78 record in played at 33 1/3 speed...
Gloomy View. Purchasing agents, the nation's keenest judges of buying trends, reported that for the fifth consecutive month business has trimmed its inventories; they counted twice as many production declines as increases. Department store sales were still below last year's, and commodity prices kept on falling (e.g., meat, cotton, wheat, pulp and paper...
...financial aid from the Methodists. Although they do get donations, Goodwill agencies have usually been 90% selfsupporting, rarely campaign for funds. Last year the 101 Goodwills in the U.S. got only half a million dollars in contributions. They took in $13,648,948 in 1951 from store sales and other projects, paid out $8,157,620 in wages to 17,545 handicapped people who worked 11 million hours...
Good Customer. In Butte. Mont., Shoe Repairman C. E. Miller surprised a burglar entering his store, let him go after the man assured him: "I trade here all the time...