Word: stockroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salop's theory of bookselling is simple: people like big books, pretty books, with red and green covers, nice pictures. When he buys books, he buys by weight, size, color. What is inside the book does not interest him. Pulling down a volume from a publisher's stockroom shelves, he turns it over in his plump hands, says: "Tick [thick], 18?." If it is thin, he says: "Tin, 8?." Some sixth sense supplies him with his shrewd literary judgments. Of one unfortunate author he is supposed to have said: "Dat guy? Dat guy? He couldn't even...
Listening to ball games via a radio located in a section man's office, Lee Powell, veteran baseball fan and a stockroom attendant in the Chemistry A, Laboratory, is perfectly satisfied with life. Powell is a personal friend of Pie Traynor, Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who also lives in Somerville...
...alterations in detail are as follows: The kitchen has been electrified. A new refrigerator has been put in place of the old ice box, and a new larger stove has been installed. The stockroom has also been changed around to be of more easy access to the kitchen...
...still abuilding and may not open until next January. Keedoozle stores will be run by electricity. All articles for sale will be displayed behind glass. To purchase, the customer will insert a key in a hole in the showcase beside the sample article, press a button. In the stockroom the proper article will drop on a conveyor belt leading to the cashier's desk. Simultaneously the purchase price is recorded on an adding machine. After all purchases are made, the customer sticks his key into the adding machine, gets his bill. Using another key, the cashier releases the purchases...
...good for glue, grease for lubricants, bones for buttons, bone-handles, Mah-Jongg sets and dust. Orientals pay more than $100 per Ib. for hog gallstones. The ultimate remainder is brewed, dried and ground, sold as stock feed. Only the paunch manure is not used for anything. And, as stockroom adage has it, the squeal...