Word: inspecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macy's customer has become the prototype of the shopper, Straus has become the archetype of the shrewd retailer. Straus zeroed in on what he called his "bull's-eye" (middle-income) clientele, liked to stalk around the floors to check on the sales people and inspect the merchandising for taste...
Jail Tents. Employees at the Stock Yard Inn, where many of the delegates will eat at least once, have been checked for security. (Three failed to meet specifications, but were fired for "incompetence" before the test was completed.) Secret Service agents will inspect all personnel and cargoes going into the stockyards. Other agents will be positioned to survey everyone arriving by public transport. Known militants and agitators will be shadowed as a matter of course...
...peruse the bargains offered in men's toupees and nerve pills, mowing machines and dog-powered churns, foot scrapers and kraut cutters. Sears sewing machines and wagons, forges or stoves, were guaranteed to give the purchaser status ("The neighbors would admire it once they were permitted to inspect...
According to Lockshin, Miss McCarthy had charged Boyle $500 to inspect the papers, and had then requested another $1000 for any additional services...
...converted ATCS, called "Aid Boats" by Delta G.I.s, puff along at eight knots behind the Mobile Riverine's speedier patrol boats, whose missions are to inspect sampans for smuggled arms and materiel and attack suspected Viet Cong strongholds. The little flattops serve as refueling depots for support helicopters and as supply ships. But their most important duty is to serve as floating Medevac stations for the attack ships...