Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would-be adventurers in the Care Capriccio should get a big bang out of "A Far Place." It is by an ex-MacLeish student, who spent two years in Accra, Dakar, and Abidjan working for Texaco, and has also played factory hand, circus roustabout, department store salesman, U.P. Staff correspondent, and Associate Editor of the Paris Review. He also spent a year writing "A Far Place," in Paris, before becoming a Barnard English teacher...
...taken over bankrupt state catering establishments, opened restaurants and cafes, and by substituting service for the state attitude that the customer is always wrong, are making them pay. In Warsaw private enterprise is building a new market, a new shopping center, and the city's first private department store since...
...charges. The Negroes still refused to ride the buses. "We must smash this boycott," said Transport Minister Ben Schoeman. "It's only a test by the African National Congress of its power. If they want a showdown, they'll get it." But when one big Johannesburg chain store, accepting the government's get-tough advice, threatened to fire three Negroes for coming late to work, a strong hint of boycott by its customers changed its mind...
...high-altitude flying have long been studied. Until recently, the corresponding dangers of the deep have been the private preserve of Navy "diving doctors" working with submariners and deep-sea divers. Now, with the craze for skindiving, with Aqua-Lungs, snorkels and similar gadgets sold in the corner store, civilian doctors are daily confronted with unfamiliar problems. In the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the Navy's top underwater medicinemen, Lieut. Edward H. Lanphier, offers a primer. Dr. Lanphier, of the Navy's Experimental Diving Unit in Washington, D.C., is principally concerned about amateurs...
Like most department stores, Macy's at first used FIFO-first in, first out-which computes the year's profits on the basis of the first stock bought during the year. Though FIFO is less advantageous during inflation, when costs are steadily rising, many stores prefer it because it guards them against higher taxes should inventory costs begin to fall. Companies cannot switch back and forth; Government permission is needed to do so. Gambling on continued price rises, Macy's asked permission to use LIFO in 1942. The Government refused, but in 1947 allowed a Baltimore department...