Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GRAND UNION Co. Sales went so well in the company's chain of 440 food stores that profits in the first fiscal quarter jumped...
Such heights are far removed from Manhattan's Lower East Side, where Winston was born and reared, the son of an immigrant from Odessa. Young Winston went to the College of the City of New York ('20) and Fordham Law School, raised a $50,000 stake in the export-import business, shrewdly started horse trading in real estate. In the Depression Winston confidently bought large blocks of land on city fringes, watched his wallet grow fat as the population shifted to the suburbs...
...avoid the searching British navy. War caught up with the Bremen, and British bombing and fire reduced it to a worthless hulk in its home port of Bremerhaven. Last week a new Bremen sailed into New York harbor on her maiden voyage from Bremerhaven, and the lights went on again for North German Lloyd, West Germany's biggest passenger-shipping company...
...father ordered her home. Belle simply stuck out her well-developed chest in defiance, walked up to the first man she saw-he happened to be a traveling salesman-and murmured: "Will you have an orange?" He allowed as how he would, and within hours they were married. Father went home, and Belle stayed with the show...
...beards: "Every time I see a color advertisement now of the Schweppes man, I feel very sad. I am thinking of all the magnificent beards that went to waste on the Lower East Side when...