Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term's end Coleman is ineligible to succeed himself. The word in country store and courthouse is that he will run in 1960 against Senator James Eastland, a Delta man for whom Hill-Countryman Coleman holds no particular affection. So far, the governor has not announced such an intention. But if Coleman does make the run, and does, as the odds would indicate, beat Eastland, nothing could better convince the rest of the U.S. that a thoroughly awakened Mississippi knows the difference between an 1890 oxcart and a 1957 Jet plane...
...were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite of Paris' spring collections -the mystic and sacred time when Paris' top couturiers reveal to a tiptoe world the latest variations and dissonances on the theme of the Eternal Feminine...
...guard against frivolous visitors and suspected pirates, every manufacturer has to deposit $1,500 (deductible from future purchases) just to get in. Store buyers deposit $430. In the grey-and-gold salon the atmosphere is as tense and excited as a first night on Broadway. Smart, lean women in the toque hats of the latest...
...buying, or will he succumb to the notes of pessimism and tighten up his purse strings? By the healthy ring of the nation's cash registers last week, it was clear that the consumer has not suffered any recession jitters. The Federal Reserve Board reported that department-store sales for the previous week jumped 7% above the 1956 level, and that for the month ending in mid-February, sales increased in all but one of the nation's twelve major purchasing zones...
Radio Carts. Tait's Southdale Super Valu supermarket in Minneapolis has installed 25 portable radios on shopping carts so customers can hear favorite programs while they shop. Bob Tait, president of the store, got the idea after buying a $29.50 battery radio for his daughter's bicycle, is now dickering with a maker for 75 transistor sets specially designed for supermarket listening...