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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their boom, furniture manufacturers were not cheery. They believed that retailers were stocking up faster than the public was buying. They feared that raw material prices would rise, boosting prices and nipping the industry's little boomlet. They gloomed that if World War II brings increased construction costs, new home building will suffer. All the same, 1939 household furniture sales should exceed $400,000,000 for the first time since...
...weeks after headgear is brought out as the new thing, it may be old hat. "Millinery . . . has no intrinsic value...
...fewer than 20%, of the 1,300 styles which New York City's 500 millinery manufacturers try out each year are there sizable repeat orders...
...Important are millinery departments managed by syndicates, on lease, in department stores. One trick of less responsible syndicates: 1) to use a store's good name to sell bad goods at a high price, later move on to a new store...
...Unlike industries requiring a substantial capital investment" (in New York City, which accounts for 56% of millinery production, total equipment is estimated at $1,000,000), "hard times produce an increase in the number of millinery manufacturers. The failure of one concern results in the formation of three or four new concerns, for the owners, salesmen and factory workers of the firm which goes out of business . . . start new factories of their...