Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of August 6, on pages 34, 35 and part of 36 is an article concerning mail order champagne. Evidently one Paul Garrett is conducting or has conducted this campaign, as noted on page 34, to relieve the overproduction in the grape industry...
...from 35 to 41? a pound. But last February, the price of crude rubber broke sharply, fell to 26.9? in March, 17.2? in April, stood last week just under 20?. Large tire companies took a staggering loss on their inventories. Tire prices fell to meet fierce competition from mail order houses and small dealers who had not accumulated a rubber reserve...
...assured life of 25,000 miles, proclaims: "No other manufacturer has dared to write such a guarantee," declares itself "America's Largest Distributor of Tires." But Montgomery Ward counters with the slogan. "World's Biggest Tire Dealer." The tire war seemed localized to the two principal mail order houses. While the tire companies were piling up deficits, Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward showed largest sales on record...
...last week, tire manufacturers took vigorous action to meet the menace of the mail order houses. Two months ago, the dormant Rubber Institute was brought to life under the directorship of onetime Prohibition Commissioner Lincoln C. Andrews. Its first arresting act was the insertion, last week, of large advertisements in 400 daily newspapers. Speaking for 44 companies, Tsar Andrews pungently flayed the mileage guarantee. This practice, so profitable to mail order houses, was branded thus...
...place of this bitterly castigated sales promise, Tsar Andrews and his 44 companies offered a guarantee designed to sweep mail order house claims into oblivion. The Andrews guarantee...