Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suits they had on hand. President Ward gave them ten days to clear out their old stocks at the old prices. But one retailer made the mistake of letting the apparel trade's Daily News Record in on the secret. News services spotted the trade-paper item and spread the good news to bargain-hungry U.S. consumers. Result: Goodall's retailers could no longer find anyone foolish enough to pay $27.50 for a Palm Beach, had to put the new low price into effect right away at little more than they paid for them...
...underlying consumer demand," said FRB, "if goods were available at prices and qualities considered attractive." So far the price cuts on many things had not been great enough to coax out the "strong underlying consumer demand." And despite the drop in commodities and the general business recession, many an item in the cost of living was not following the trend. For example, meat, which had dropped, had gone up again. But those industries which had gone through their own recessions and cut prices had found that the bottom was not so far down as they had feared. They had learned...
...Penney had a better idea: cash on the barrelhead. More important, at a time when most small-town retailers firmly believed it was good business to make a big profit on small volume, Penney subscribed to a still revolutionary idea; he wanted to make a small profit on each item, thus build big volume and a big profit...
...there are any stalwart Law School worthies unintelligent enough still to be sweltering within reading distance of this item who desire to play a canto or two of "ring around the habeas corpus," or "tibia, tibia, who's got the fibula" with a trio of Cornell Medicos all for the love of a lady, let them apply forthwith to the CRIMSON Building...
...more convenient Northwest section of the city, he built a home in the Southeast quarter. Around the corner from him was a public school, but it was for white children; Bunche had to send his two daughters to a Negro school nearly three miles away. There were other complications. Item: last March the fashionable Wardman Park Hotel refused a meeting room to the Middle East Institute when it learned that Bunche was scheduled to speak...