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Word: weinstein (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco's Weinstein's department store started cutting prices, and the rival Emporium followed suit, declared: "We didn't become the biggest store in San Francisco by selling at higher prices." In Omaha, the Smith Drug chain signed up for the duration of the price war; prices of fair-traded items began to tumble in Memphis and other cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Welcome War | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...placed the ad is Dr. Alfred Weinstein, an Atlanta physician who spent 3-1/2 years in a Japanese prison camp and a year recuperating in U.S. Army hospitals (where he turned out a capable book, Barbed-Wire Surgeon). Japanese prison guards fractured his windpipe, broke one of his arms, blasted his ears. A year ago, convinced that Atlanta wasn't doing enough by the veterans, he borrowed more than $600,000 (most of it from FHA), teamed with a contractor friend and built a 140-unit project. This week the first 28 tenants moved in. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: No Shenanigans | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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