Word: storing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin tissue, were carried to the printers in a hollow cane. Bundles of the finished sheet were transferred in store elevators, on dark street corners, in crowded busses. Yet each man knew only the distribution links above and below him. For aiding Free Belgium two men were shot and scores of others died slowly in German concentration camps without ever knowing who produced the paper, or where...
...that Field's was purging the McKinsey policies and people, the Chicago Journal of Commerce headlined the Margeson resignation announcement FIELD'S TO MAKE SWEEPING CHANGES IN MCKINSEY POLICIES, put it on the front page. Pressagent Schaeffer, horribly embarrassed, hurriedly denied that Chicago's biggest department store would make any such changes. He said that Mr. Margeson, bitter about being forced out of Field's, had written and released his own resignation statement. Explained Pressagent Schaeffer: "Sour grapes...
...Alleghenies other than a horse trading center on the Mississippi and one or two gold fields in Alaska, Americans carried a jack-knife a lump of wax, and a package of miscellaneous stamps for trading purposes in their pants pocket, bought a Tootsic Roll at the corner store, and went to "The Great Train Robbery...
...Womack, deaf and 60, sat aloof, his hand cupped to his ear, as indignant insurance adjusters and store managers recognized not only Bertha Mae but his three daughters. Mrs. Mildred Felis, Mrs. Anna Ehrman, Mrs. Blanche Miller, their three husbands, and a family friend named Miss Margaret Robertson. Apparently sturdy, the Womacks had for several years proved more susceptible to injury than any family in the U. S. The slightest jolt of a bus or taxicab was enough to send a Womack sprawling. In elevators and department stores in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee, the Womacks repeatedly stumbled over...
Even more money was saved by worried department-store owners and souvenir manufacturers. Forgetting their Princess' national trait of doing things thoroughly, but slowly, thousands of souvenir baby spoons, mugs, cups and porringers had been made, almost all of them marked "January 1938." Days passed with no news from rural Soesdijk Palace before which stood a silent crowd, forbidden by palace officials to shout, or even to stamp their feet to keep warm. Finally with less than 24 hours of January left to make the birthday mugs legitimate, the Princess' Princess was born...