Word: shop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accountable only to McCarthy. Both in his bull-like determination to make himself Houston's first citizen and in the conduct of his business empire-which includes vast oil holdings, Houston's radio station KXYZ, a chemical works, 14 neighborhood newspapers and a swank men's shop-he often seems a throwback to the lustier days of the 19th Century...
...inviting controversy, a Hamburg theology professor suggested that technology was a threat to mankind. Asked a young toolmaker: "How would the professor have come so speedily from Hamburg to address this Christian meeting if technicians hadn't developed cars and railroad trains?" "The professor is right," said a shop foreman. "We must not be mere automatons. We must consider our work in a Christian light...
...fashion needs of the well-heeled have been Garfinckel's chief concern ever since Founder Julius Garfinckel opened his shop on Washington's F Street in 1905. He stocked it with such things as French handbags, fine furs, lingerie and jewelry, built up such prestige that Garfinckel's soon became the most fashionable store in the capital. A vegetarian and health faddist, he kept his office desk on an open-air terrace except in coldest winter. He built his business to a gross of $3.2 million without ever running display advertisements in a newspaper or magazine...
...cornerstone four months before the 1929 crash) is a wondrously massive seven-story limestone, granite and marble pile with 3,311 rooms and 5,200 windows, covering three full city blocks. From its-vast collection of books and reports, U.S. citizens can learn how to run a pants cleaning shop or whether there is a market for hookah pipes in Nicaragua. Its archives contain patents for ornithopters (beating-wing flying machines) and a "pedal calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching from the nostrils to the inside of the shoes; the wearer can warm his feet merely by exhaling...
...each year. No man to throw his money around, the customs collector skipped the dictator's all-night poker parties. But in 1944, when a sit-down strike of businessmen threatened Somoza's power, Lindberg came to Tacho's aid by declaring that no striking shop owner would get any dollars for imports...