Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe's most successful realist has risen in classically enterprising fashion from hamble origins. Born Feb. 4, 1897 in the town of Fürth near Nürnberg in Franconia, he was the son of a peasant boy who left his farm to open a dry goods store in town. Badly wounded by a shell at Ypres, Corporal Ludwig Erhard returned home too weak to work in the store. He stayed on at Nürnberg's Commercial College, found his vocation in economics, went on to take his doctor's degree at Frankfurt University under...
...champagne (the waiters had quickly begun hawking it at up to $7 a bottle), fewer had eaten the truck-borne smorgasbord, almost none of the guests left with gifts, although a passel of greedy looters and gate-crashers made off with enough lightweight plunder to stock a Sears, Roebuck store. And Todd, who never had 18,000 friends, had made almost that many black-tied enemies...
...economic front last week to reinforce fears that 1957's fourth quarter, while good by most normal standards, might not be up to the ever-rising boom-time standards the U.S. has come to expect. Personal income dropped off for the first time since January 1956; department-store sales across the country were off 1% for the week, and carloadings showed a decline. The rate of business failures for the first half was higher than in 1956, and industrial output for September declined...
...mark its birthday in typical Texas-tall style, the store traveled more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic for foreign help in turning the city into one gigantic promotion spree. Naturally, Neiman's chose France, where the highest fashion comes from−and naturally France was only too glad to help Neiman's, where all good Texas millionaires outfit their wives...
...Seat. In Oklahoma City, after suspected Shoplifter Elmo Dolling Jr. eluded two store clerks, raced two blocks by foot and dashed into an office building for refuge, he dropped into a chair, exhausted and out of breath, discovered Loo late that he was sitting in the sheriff's office interrogation room...