Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the rivers had risen steadily all one night, Market Street was dry at 8 o'clock the next morning as thousands of Pittsburghers went to work in the Triangle without getting their feet wet. At 10 a. m. Market Street was hip-deep in swirling water. Workers frantically rushed records and goods to upper floors or slogged for home. As plate-glass windows gave way, leaving rich stores open for looting, 1,500 National Guardsmen marched into the district, threw a khaki line from end to end of Grant Street, the Triangle's base. Up & up surged...
...white life companies discriminate against black risks because of the higher mortality rate among Negroes, the Negro insurance company has, on the. whole, had a sorry record. It was largely through the efforts of Director Powell and his friends, that Victory had been able to enter the rich insurance market of Harlem. After Victory went into receivership, Director Powell succeeded in working out a reorganization plan, converting Victory from a stock company to a mutual company owned by its policy holders...
...Manhattan and at R. H. White Co. in Boston, which is owned by Filene's. All three stores are members of Associated Merchandising Corp., which was founded by Lincoln Filene in 1916 to. give leading department stores throughout the country a Manhattan centre for style and market information, later engaged in co-operative buying. By the middle of last month all but four of the 20 members of Associated Merchandising Corp. had been "red-carded" by the Guild...
...grown to be the sixth largest industry in the U. S., the dress trade had been chaotically innocent of any organization at all. Looking back on those days, dress manufacturers and jobbers remember only a hodgepodge of feverishly busy small houses trying to keep up with an enormously expanding market, trying to please retail buyers who demanded fresh styles and fresh discounts, trying to give up as little as possible in each successive treaty with the fighting Garment unions, trying to keep their heads up in a competition which involved almost every dirty trick known to business...
Chairman and guiding spirit of the Guild is diminutive, elegant Dress Manufacturer Maurice Rentner. Mr. Rentner writes most of the descriptive copy for his own little fashion magazine, Quality Street. Born in Poland, he started his career in the Manhattan dress market as an errand boy carrying thread to shirtwaist makers. He now owns a manufacturing firm with six factories, makes dresses retailing from $55 up. Mr. Rentner says the court fight now threatening his Guild is at bottom an effort by retailers to escape the Guild's stabilizing policies on discounts and returns, that the question of style...