Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was many another sign of steady recovery. The number of workers drawing unemployment compensation dropped, as did new claims for jobless pay. Department store sales ran 5% above the year-ago level. January auto production, geared closely to sales, moved 11% higher than last year's rate (see chart). American Motors was selling three times as many Ramblers as it did in January 1958. Studebaker-Packard was also outselling last year 3 to 1, due almost entirely to its fast-moving little Lark. The company had already outproduced its 1958 total of 49,770 and made...
...Philadelphia office, Symes shoots down to Washington several times a month in his private railroad car (with cook, steward, three bedrooms, dining room, observation lounge). Nattily dressed and usually puffing a Camel (his male secretary always carries extra packs), Symes tickles legislators with his hearty humor and ready store of anecdotes, sways them with his sharp intelligence, collars Congressmen for private talks, is always ready to testify before a congressional committee...
...Soviet dignitary returned from Copenhagen and reported that economic conditions were very bad in Denmark. Surprised, one listener pointed out that Danish store windows were full of goods. "Oh. yes," conceded the Communist, "but the Danish people have no money to buy. There were no lines in front of the stores...
...conference, Frances R. Brown, Dean of Residence, revealed that students will be allowed to store belongings in the dormitories this summer, contrary to an announcement last fall. She explained that since Harvard has decided not to use the Radcliffe halls for Summer School housing, the college is now willing to incur the "very considerable expense" of storage...
...Department-store sales across the nation climbed 5% in January's third week, chalking up the third straight week of gain over 1958 levels...