Word: stores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Twenty inches piled up in the Washington metropolitan area, as much as 40 inches in Pennsylvania, 20 inches in New York City suburbs, 35 inches in northern New Jersey. And wherever it fell, it brought fresh hardship to the land. Absenteeism dogged the factories. Ohrbach's department store in Manhattan looked like a morgue; other New York City stores reported 25% and 33% losses in business. "It definitely hurt unemployment," said a Labor Department expert. "It slowed up construction and farming." Wrote Washington Pundit David Lawrence: "People just don't go downtown shopping or begin to look...
...Miles From Zomba. Central Africa's Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland proclaims "racial partnership" as its official policy, but unofficially the color bar is so rigid that Indian and Pakistani diplomats are continually turned away from movie theaters, liquor stores, hotels and restaurants-even when they are guests of whites. The wife of an Indian official was not allowed to enter an elevator in a Salisbury department store, and later was refused admission to a "European" maternity home. A Pakistani trade commissioner who had been an R.A.F. squadron leader during World War II was invited to represent his country...
Back in March 1858. when visiting farmers slept on the dirt floors of shady saloons and prostitutes strolled along unpaved streets, the Chicago Y. was founded by a group of reformers called the Chicago Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement, at a meeting over a lakefront store just one street away from gangland's "Hairtrigger Block." By the end of the first year, the organization had grown to 355 members, chalked up (thanks to traveling Preacher Henry Ward Beecher's drawing power) the tidy profit...
KRESS FOUNDATION will exercise control of S. H. Kress & Co. variety-store chain. Four members of Kress's seven-man board were replaced with four foundation men. Company Chairman Rush H. Kress acceded to demands of foundation, which owns 42% of Kress common, after it threatened proxy war (TIME...
Half-Pint Without a Cause. In Towner, N.Dak., an empty cream bottle, left on a counter in the Golden Rule Store, collected nearly a dollar in small coins before a clerk noticed...