Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four earlier husbands. Silver-haired, dark-eyed Ewing Scott had man-of-distinction looks. He had wooed and won another woman with inherited money back in the 1930s, but that marriage ended in divorce. In the interval between two wealthy wives, Scott clerked in a paint store, but he carried a business card billing himself as an "investment broker." The only noticeable work he did during his second marriage was writing How to Fascinate Men, a brief handbook for women. It made him no money at all: he never paid the printer's $6,818.64 bill, and a court...
Having blandly appropriated the defeated Malenkov's consumer-goods program, he promised 250 branches of Moscow's huge GUM Department Store in the capital's outskirts and is building 20 blocks of apartment buildings to give some of the elite's rising expectations a little houseroom. Said one proud engineer: "It is time for others to think of us as other than backward. We are moving, and Khrushchev is helping us move...
...step in the right direction, to the respected Committee for Economic Development, a private organization of high-level businessmen and educators. In a thoughtful farm-policy study released last week, C.E.D. argued that it would be cheaper for the Government to rent farm land than to buy and store surplus crops, because the crop price not only covers land rental but also the costs of labor, equipment, fertilizer...
...played a leading role in breaking dow?n our segregation laws, and at last bringing upon the people of Little Rock the most insufferable outrage ever visited upon an American city. There is a rising tide of race feeling-in fact, a revolution is beginning in the South. Your store and all stores that advertise in the Arkansas Gazette will be placed on one side or the other. This is your notice to make your own choice...
...only ones who are genuinely happy during the Christmas weeks are the department store owners, who, we firmly believe, have been the motivating force behind the entire affair. A few days ago we were almost happy ourselves as we watched Mr. Macy and Mr. Gimbel frown their way through the New York City subway strike (there weren't enough kiddies around to keep their scores of Santa Clauses busy). But with the passing of the Motormen's Benevolent Association, Macy's reports that it never had it so good, so there...