Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic energy exhibit. Other American attention-getters: the "Circarama," a 15-minute movie of America the Beautiful projected on a 360° screen; the IBM 305 Ramac, which produces answers in ten languages in ten seconds; a set of U.S. voting machines. The pavilion's transplanted "corner drug store" and restaurant sold hot dogs, hamburgers, milk shakes at a brisk rate, chiefly to Americans...
...Manhattan's biggest department store sirened: "Guess who's opening Macy's camp center this year? Captain Video himself." Exulted a Macy publicity man: "He has a fantastic pull with the kids. He can pack 2,000 in 400 square feet!" Nobody seems to care that Captain Video is no longer battling extraterrestrial badmen in outer galaxies. For though the show is dead, the character lives on, like a stubborn ghost, to haunt Actor Al Hodge, who portrayed the gallant captain for five years on the nation's TV screens. "I've made more personal...
They spent their money freely, but in unexpected places; they cleaned out all stocks of gabardine from one department store, all the nylon fur from another. They loaded up on lingerie and stockings and perfumes-for the girls back home; for themselves, they bought shirts, shorts and ties-in any color, curiously, except red. A surprising haul was made by Wellington's druggists, for the Red sailors swept the shelves bare of laxatives, and even bought up patent medicine that had been gathering dust for years. At week's end the Russians went back to their ships laden...
Merchants also were happy about the commercial aspect of the project. Ellsworth Young, owner of the Phillips Book Store, said that it was an "encouraging sign which will draw a lot of business to the area." He dubbed it the Radio City of Harvard Square...
...consumer, who has gone right on buying heavily despite the recession, finally showed some signs of slowing up. The Federal Reserve Board reported last week that March department-store sales failed to live up to expectations. While sales were 1% above a year ago, the board had expected a rise of 6% because of the early Easter. New York stores were up 7%, Minneapolis 6%, Atlanta 4%, but Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis and Dallas were all down, as much as 3%. Hoping to stir renewed interest. Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced an average 13% price cut in its spring catalogue, said...