Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doors. Bon Marche's brand-new $3,000,000 suburban branch, first unit to open, was the headline attraction. On the first day 15,000 customers jammed the store, and at week's end, men's suits were selling so fast that Bon Marche had to truck suits to the downtown store for alterations. So many diners crowded into the store's 250-seat "Legend Room" restaurant that on Sunday, when the rest of the store was closed, the restaurant was cleaned out of dollar bills for making change. (The resourceful manager persuaded the pastor...
...Clean Feet? The school had to plan three different curriculums. There was a five-year course for 14-to 16-year-old beginners, many of whom will be trained for work as truck drivers, straw bosses and cannery workers. There was an eight-year course for the ten-year-olds, who will have time to learn to be tailors, mechanics, etc. For the youngest pupils there was a full-fledged public-school program...
...fired five shots into the first short, fat man who came out the door-it happened to be a music-publishing executive named Irving Penn. Penn screamed and collapsed, dying. Parisi jumped into a stolen getaway car, driven by one Seymour ("Blue Jaw") Magoon-and found that a gravel truck was blocking the street...
...Lamont Library has to do is to put a book-return box in each House. Students will put library books in these boxes when they finish studying at night. A truck will pick up the books from the boxes at 8:45 a.m. and take them to Lamont. This will be better for the Library, since the easier procedure will encourage more books to come back on time...
After futile efforts (above) to remove the machine, Sergeant James Twomey of the University police phoned its owners, Warren Brothers of Cambridge. The night watchman had no idea how to start the thing, but promised to dispatch a pick-up truck before morning...