Word: shop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four days and nights, Rio de Janeiro rocked to the torrid music of samba bands, the tin-shop crash of colliding motor cars, the laughter and shrieks of costumed revelers. Cariocas agreed that it was the greatest carnival they had ever celebrated...
...TIME Correspondent Thomas Dozier and Yakov Malik, Soviet delegate to the United Nations, occupied adjoining chairs recently in London's Savoy Hotel barber shop. Part way through their joint shearing Dozier heard Comrade Malik summon a page boy, to whom he gave half a crown and instructions to get him a copy of TIME. When the boy -returned with a copy, Malik took it, looked at the cover and gruffed: "This is not it; this is last week's issue; I've read that one. Don't they have a new TIME up there...
Then, as the comrades glared, Mannu disappeared into a shop, bought some rubber-soled shoes, a green necktie, a scarf, and a hat like the one he had admired in an American movie. He tipped the shopgirl $3, promenaded off with 25 friends to a lunch of lobster & champagne. He said that henceforth he would drink beer with his meals, travel only by plane. Then he flew off for Rome...
...tailor cut a pair of trousers from his canvas roll, and soon the miner was strolling all over town, boasting how strong were these "pants of Levi's." With one satisfied customer, Strauss found he had a steady stream of men who wanted "Levis." In a shop on San Francisco's California Street, he began making dozens of pairs of the waist-high overalls which defied the wear & tear of bronc-riding, gold-mining and plain ordinary living...
Sheaffer has been learning the reasons since 1908, when, as a ten-year-old, he watched his father, Walter A. Sheaffer, experiment with messy medidne-dropper-filled pens in his Fort Madison jewelry shop. Father Sheaffer got the bright idea of putting the dropper inside, scraped up $35,000 in capital, and in 1913 started his company. Craig, after two years in college, hurried back to the business. In 1921, his father took a big risk. When most pens sold for $2.75, he brought out one for $8.75-with a "lifetime" guarantee. The gamble paid off, and Sheaffer became...