Word: storing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last July, as he walked into a trader's store at Rattlesnake, N.Mex. to buy cigarettes, he saw two men examining a fist-sized, yellow-streaked piece of rock. He heard them say, in Spanish, that it was a sample of uranium ore, and that the Government was offering a $10,000 prize to prospectors who made a big strike. Paddy decided to try finding some and that same day, as he rode his horse homeward, he spotted an outcropping of the odd-looking rock. He broke off some. Next day he took it to Grants, gave...
Died. Agnes Repplier, 95, leading U.S. woman essayist; in Philadelphia. A cat-loving, chain-smoking spinster, she began writing at 30. To U.S. readers, who never put much store by the polite, personal essay, she managed to convey the impression that she was from another country. But she acquired an audience that remained fond of her well-bred talent for taking graceful potshots at varied targets...
Completely Stocked. In Hornell, N.Y., a deer wandered into Wilkin's sporting-goods store...
Consumers did almost no scare buying last week. The dollar volume of U.S. department-store sales was just about the same as last year, and the unit volume was probably below. Groaned one merchandiser: "We could use a little scare buying." Storekeepers guessed that those who wanted to hoard had overstocked in July and were now living off of their fat. And the rest of the consumers, said one merchant, were "all scared...
...Home. In Unionville, Ont., John W. Perkins, who issues government permits for radios, was fined $5 for failing to license the radios in his house and hardware store. Near Palmerston, Ont., Dr. I. W. James, chief of the Gunshot Wounds section of the Pension Commission, went hunting, shot himself in the foot...