Word: shop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Cogliandro, owner of the Dunster Shop, said, "when they start talking about raising the price, it's a sure thing they will." Business usually lags for a week or two after an increase is effected, Cogliandro said, "but although students threaten to extend the time between haircuts, they never...
However, Charles Ferranti, co-owner of the Harvard Barber Shop, said that a rise in barber prices differs from price rises of merchandise. "People complain more, and those do-it-yourself kits come on the market right away." He added that students, who compose about 60 per cent of his trade, don't complain as much, "because they come from places where the barbers charge even more...
...should wait and see what's what," another owner moaned. "Hair tonic, shaving cream, and the rent will go up next." A co-owner of La Flamme Shop said that he had a "clientele of doctors, lawyers, and businessmen for 15 or 25 years. I feel sorry for them; they are friends, not customers." His partner echoed, "He's right...
Lucius was not one to let February 14th slip by unobserved, and as he emerged squinting from the library, his rubbers pioneered their way through the slush to the Crimson Specialty Shop...
...unknown at the Shop, the scene of many little economics, and he smiled modestly at the salesman who was watching his progress to the Valentines rack. Glancing guiltily past those daring, jokey ones, he hovered over the "Personal" section...