Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houston mansion were bags, barrels and cans brimming with silver dollars, plus a hoard of $2 bills. Estimated total: upwards of $250,000. Fearing that cartwheels might be scarce some day-the last batch was minted in 1935-West built up a reserve supply, apparently added the emergency store of deuces just in case the silver-dollar stockpile ran low. Jim West was no man to let himself get into the embarrassing plight of having to hand out ordinary $1 bills...
Some of this was hard for De Gaulle's parliamentary adversaries to swallow. But for the colons and balcony generals of Algiers- whom De Gaulle contemptuously dismissed in private conversation as "a bunch of boy scouts"-even harsher medicine was in store. De Gaulle's Cabinet included no diehard colonialists and not one of the men involved in the Algiers insurrection. It consisted instead of parliamentary ministers and nonparty technicians centered around France's three major "democratic" parties. Among them: Socialist Guy Mollet and Catholic Popular Republican Pierre Pflimlin as Ministers of State; Independent Antoine Pinay...
Before the Senate labor-management investigating committee, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s top labor expert, Charles A. Schimmat, last week reluctantly told a small and ugly story. In 1952, when the C.I.O. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union was signing up New York area supermarket employees in a successful drive for a 40-hour work week,* Schimmat cooked up a plan for keeping 16,000 clerks in 700 A. & P. stores working on the same old 45-hour week...
Over the rigid shoulders of a line of Venezuelan soldiers at Maiquetía Airport, streams of spittle arced through humid sunlight, splattered on the neatly pressed grey suit of the Vice President of the U.S. and on the red wool suit of his wife. But worse was in store: less than an hour later Dick and Pat Nixon brushed close to injury and possibly death in violence-torn streets of Caracas, last stop on their eight-nation visit to South America...
...self-styled boy genius named Don Burden and his newly bought radio station KMYR. Burden, a lively pitchman of 29 who owns two other stations, made his pitch by announcing a $50,000 "Treasure Hunt." The old scheme has seldom been so doughtily exploited. College boys plastered downtown store windows with promotional stickers, annoying merchants so much that KMYR ran a newspaper ad apologizing. The first hints as to where the loot was buried were totally worthless. Sample: "Fifty grand is much money, forsooth/Don't waste your time in a telephone booth...