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United will provide the competitor with assets and properties to support imports of about 9,000,000 stems a year, about 35% of United's imports in 1957. Managerial personnel must also come from United. The decree restricts United from acting as a processor or jobber with in the U.S., and orders it to get rid of its holdings in International Railways of Central America, which owns the main railroad in Guatemala and El Salvador...
...less than a century, the hasty funeral jobber became something like a theatrical producer, and with proper pride he set about rouging away his social stigma He changed his title from "undertaker" "mortician" and later to "funeral director." The "curbstone undertakers" were curbed by their colleagues, and sanitary standards were generally set up before the law got around to it. In some states it now takes three years-two in college and one in a school of "mortuary science''-to get an undertaker's diploma...
...service the more than 32,000 liquor licensees in metropolitan New York alone, a job that an independent distributor was already doing for him much more cheaply. Nevertheless, on a few big ticket items, such as automobiles, big savings can be made by bypassing the jobber and wholesaler...
...getting so that anyone is just a damned fool to buy anything at retail," said James Shea, a big Dallas electric-appliance distributor. Shea, like many another U.S. appliance jobber, is finding that more & more of his business is coming from "discount houses" which offer everything from washing machines, refrigerators and TV sets, down to fountain pens, at 20% to 30% below list price...
...price slashers. Sunbeam Corp. (Shavemaster, Mixmaster) and Simmons Co. (mattresses) have done so; Sunbeam is being sued by Masters for refusing to supply it. But most big manufacturers and distributors look the other way because discount houses move big volumes of goods rapidly. Said a big Westinghouse Electric jobber: "Some of these stores are necessary for our business because they keep us going in slack times...