Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retail merchants are finding the strike's impact uneven. Jewelry stores are empty. "Business is as bad as it was in 1932," says Jeweler Harold Klivans. But hardware stores have thrived selling paint and other do-it-yourself items to strikers; many a steelworker has taken advantage of the strike to paint the woodwork and put up long-postponed shelves. Stores that grant credit freely have fared much better than those with no credit plans. "We're hurting and hurting bad," says Assistant Manager Robert Engler of a cash-only dime store on downtown Federal Street. But Bertram...
...ladder. He walked slowly, with a cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...
...other side of the moon. Official scientists did not mention photographs, but it was significant that they launched their rocket at a time when most of the far side of the moon was in sunlight. Presumably, any picture of the moon's far side would be stored (perhaps on magnetic tape), and transmitted when Lunik III was close to the earth on its return trip. The solar batteries could be programed to store up plenty of electric current for the historic broadcast...
...tape recorder, an empty store front, and about 20 tough local adolescents form the nucleus of a novel University experiment in human behavior. "Street Corner Research," a project headed by Charles W. Slack, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, has taken over a closed store at the corner of Bow St. and Massachusetts Ave. to study the problem of juvenile delinquency...
...Department store sales rose 16% over the same week a year...