Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott Roosevelt and his wife, Actress Faye Emerson, were again determined to "make Christians out of Christmas tree dealers." Last year they undercut upstate New York dealers by selling 20,000 trees from their Val-Kill farm at $1 each. This month, with the price up from 75? to 95? apiece, they will take 50,000 trees to Manhattan, where tree dealers have never spared the customer...
Upside-Down Paintings. Vienna-born Ned Ohrbach, an immigrant's son, started as a clerk, worked up to buyer for Ehrich Bros, department store. He founded Ohrbach's in 1923, a block from Manhattan's famed, price-cutting S. Klein...
...never held sales, never bragged about markdowns. He thinks they merely show that the first price was too high. His ads plugged the store rather than special articles or prices. To get away from the item-packed type of ads, Ned went as far afield as a series of abstract illustrations. Though one of his admen grumbled, "We could have turned them upside down and run them again the following week," they brought the customers...
Barbara Fitzgerald, sophomore vicepresident and chairman of the affair, announced the Christmas supper committee's decision. She added that a higher ticket price and the submission of only one manuscript in the story contest also influenced the move. Tickets already purchased will be refunded...
Another plank stated: "We oppose any tax reduction which would either impede national defense or produce additional Federal deficits." The club also went on record as opposing general price control laws...