Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mess of Pottage. In Moorhead, Minn., Bill Hersog opened a can of soup, found inside it: 1) soup, 2) a one-dollar bill, 3) four fives...
Atlanta's Davison-Paxon store sent its customers dollar bills and asked that they be awarded to courteous clerks. In Seattle, Frederick & Nelson kept a company spy prowling the aisles. His job: giving orchids to polite salesgirls. The help, apparently a little stunned by such thoughtful practices, was positively charming...
...this did not mean that the great U.S. buying boom had collapsed or even slackened. Actually, the nation was in the throes of the greatest dollar-volume buying spree in history. In Manhattan one day last week, Macy's sold $1,400,000 worth of merchandise-an alltime record- and smugly decided to quit publicizing million-dollar days. Department stores in almost every other big city in the nation had record sales days...
...Forest City, Iowa, Furniture Dealer John Hanson dramatized the U.S. farmer's prosperity in a new way. He scrubbed the dollar signs off his price tags, substituted a figure in hog-pounds. When one of his customers came in with a load of fourteen 220-lb. hogs, Dealer Hanson did a little quick figuring. At 1941 prices, he pointed out, the hogs would have bought one 9-cu. ft. refrigerator. Last week the customer got not only the refrigerator, but an electric range, an automatic toaster-and $20 in change...
What with the dollar pinch, there is no chance of going back, anyway. At least, not for years. Young Harold Wilson, president of the Board of Trade, has warned of another newsprint cut of about 7%. Newspapers can have only 115,812 tons of paper, 31% of prewar, for November through February. The government's allotment to itself: 20,500 tons...