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Upon the economic and social consequences of either chain stores or chain store taxes, it is not the duty of the Supreme Court to pass. In arguing its case A. & P. predicted that with validation of the Louisiana levy "the era of the national chain is over," perhaps that the "era of national corporations and of firms or individuals doing business in more than one State is over." By last week it had become apparent that the Louisiana tax decision might become a potent weapon in (he war on Bigness. The words of Justice Roberts meant that through tax discrimination...
...Chain store taxes similar to Louisiana's are pending in several other States and addition of a few more States to the tax column would take a sizable chunk of A. & P.'s profits. Long were the conferences in A. & P. executive offices in Manhattan last week but no company comment was forthcoming, an "official spokesman" merely observing: "Mass distribution is not static." Two alternatives to chain store merchandising are already showing hardy growth-the supermarket and the voluntary chain. Not unlike the "Iowa Plan" by which oil companies sell filling stations to their operators (TIME...
Primarily a grocery store like all supermarkets. Trading Post makes only one appeal: price. It undersells even chain stores 8% to 10%. Located in the centre of a 500,000 laboring and white-collar population, it often attracts a Saturday crowd of 10,000 avid bargain-hunters. Six neighboring lots provide free parking for 1,000 cars. In the last two and a half years two people have been killed, 19 injured in the traffic snarls that the supermarket generates...
Bona fide news in the current News warns the fraternity to stay out of the South now that chain gangs are out on the roads; felicitates Chicago's Billy Whiskers on his release from a Florida work camp; recounts that Smokehouse Eddie is vacationing in Pittsburgh; records that Big Baby Bum has now set his initials on the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Queen Mary and the late Hindenburg. Features include the running autobiography of Editor Benson; an itinerary of the best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific...
...noisy West End. Commented the professor: "Collecting birds at night in the centre of London was more easily said than done." In all cases the sex organs of those abnormally disturbed birds were larger and more fit for propagation than the sex organs of normal birds. The chain of physiological events which causes such sex stimulation is not altogether clear. In the case of light, it seems "that light falling upon the eye . . . stimulates the pituitary which in turn activates the gonads." Besides influencing birds, light "has also been shown to be effective in certain mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish...