Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a story told in Madrid about the time General Franco entered a jewelry store to buy a diamond necklace for his daughter Carmencita and found himself without the necessary cash. "But I am Franco, head of the Spanish state!" he said. "Then, naturally, you have identity papers," replied the skeptical storekeeper. But Franco had come without identity papers. "Then, perhaps you could give us some other proof," said the shopkeeper. "For example, the celebrated bullfighter Dominguin was here last week in the same predicament, and when we asked him for proof, he took a cape and made...
...Double Check. In Roanoke, Va., after banks bounced five checks because they couldn't read the signatures, cops tracked down Kenny Calhoun, got him to admit that he persuaded store clerks to fill out checks for him, signed them with a meaningless scrawl, did his forging in this way because he couldn't read or write...
Each gang has a regular meeting place, usually at some corner store. The store serves as a communications center for the gang, for everyone usually stops by there at least once a day, and there are almost always one or two members around to pass on the word. On rainy days these places are jammed, as anyone who has walked past the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and Putnam Square can testify...
...Some of the guys spend hours and hours and days and days on the street corner," one gang leader said. "Last summer, some of them would get up around 11 o'clock, go up to the corner, go back home when they felt hungry, go back up to the store until dinner, and return after dinner to stay till midnight...
...CANDY-STORE sales are souring under increasing competition from chains, supermarkets, drugstores. Dun & Bradstreet survey shows average candy shopkeeper draws yearly salary of $3,551, has net profit of $102 on sales of $25,550. Almost half of owners are running "unprofitable operations...