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...started to bring out his latest models' to retail for $1.69 and $2.69 (at most, it costs him 33? to manufacture his ballpoints). So he wanted to clean out his stock of 350,000 obsolete models which retailed for $3.85. He sold the $3.85 pens to a jobber at a price so low that they could be retailed for about...
There is a married book-jobber who is useful for visions of glamorous sinning but not much else. There is her arty boob of a brother-in-law, whom she thinks she loves. There is a gay bully of a newspaperman, whom she thinks she hates. But after dinner, theater and a midnight drive with the Press, hate turns to love...
...fanciness of the finish increases. Thus, the incentive will be to turn out cheap instead of expensive goods. Bowles estimates that this will save consumers $17,000,000 a year on cotton goods, another $21,000,000 on rayon. And it will distribute between the manufacturer, the jobber and the converter the 5% boost in the cost of cotton goods caused by the amendment of cotton-loving Senator John H. Bankhead to the Stabilization Extension Act (TIME, Oct. 9). In addition, OPAster Bowles hopes that most clothing prices will be rolled back 1.5%. But the main goal is to keep...
...Angeles, smokers cultivated their local tobacconist as in the hungriest days of meat-and-butter scarcity. This month, Detroit's Cunningham's (chain stores) got about 70% of its July 1943 order. Asked what brands were short, an Atlanta jobber answer replied, "Lady, not to give you a short answer-all of them." Five times in five minutes the cigaret-counter girl at a Walgreen store in Chicago repeated wearily, "We have no name brands." Only in Columbia, S.C. was there an oasis in the cigaret-short South...
...Coop. By the time my pants had stopped smouldering I discovered I owned a copy of S. J.'s "Dream Department," a bottle of ink-eradicator, and twelve reams of graph paper. The ink-eradicator and the graph paper I was able to fob off on some Woolworth jobber who was loitering around the Square, but my better judgment whispered to me that the tome "Dream Department" was a priceless item, not to be offered for blood or money...