Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to double the returns. The money he saved on publishing he spent on fancying up the catalog, testing products and types of illustration and copy. He created a department to study the costs of business getting, cut them down to about 5% of the price of each item compared to the usual 10% in mail-order houses. He discovered and concentrated on lines with the greatest profit margin: furniture, stoves, tires, men's clothes. And he developed Spiegel's two cardinal policies: 1) sell everything on credit; 2) sell more goods to fewer customers...
...press conferences-at least I was told it was a press conference, but it seemed to me more like a vaudeville item. The only things missing were a set of bones and a banjo. Mr. President called everybody by his first name and it was all very jolly. When one of the boys asked a riddle, Mr. President blew a smoke ring at him from his cigaret and ditched the answer...
...read a piquant item in the catalog in which swank American Art Association Anderson Galleries last week were describing parcels to be auctioned in Manhattan Dec. 9 & 10. Special clients who were permitted to pore through these early editions of Herr Hitler's Battle found many another rare bit of the Leader's wishful anthropology, since suppressed, revised or left out in translation. Samples...
With the exception of a trifling amount of merchandise taken over on bad debts, the only item of physical assets on the Talcott books is $32,000 worth of furniture and office equipment. But its current assets foot up to more than $18,000,000. Explanation for this astonishingly liquid position lies in the nature of factoring...
...manufacturer who needs working capital to build up an inventory of seasonal goods, Talcott will advance the money. Biggest item is the purchase of accounts receivable, providing a manufacturer with immediate cash for goods he sold on credit. Talcott has a tremendous credit department, so that a client, if he wants, may dispense with his own credit department entirely. Sometimes Talcott will merely assume the credit risk without advancing cash, receiving a fee for this service. The firm factors about 400 concerns, makes a point of assigning two officers with the authority to make decisions to each account, insisting that...