Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newly created $32,000,000 Pickering Lumber Co. Thirty-two years ago he and his father William R. Pickering organized the W. R. Pickering Lumber Co. for $60,000. They prospered, took in as subsidiaries the Standard Lumber Co. and the Pickering Land and Timber Co., established 51 retail yards in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, developed timber holdings of some 350,000,000 feet of southern yellow pine and 3,500,000,000 feet of California white and sugar pine, reached production of 1,000,000 feet of finished lumber a day and 400,000 doors a year. So they...
...Kansas City was also the headquarters of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. (13 plants, 126 retail yards), which Robert Alexander Long has made famous, not only by trademarking each board he puts out, but more so by creating the model industrial city of Longview on a drab stretch of the Washington shore of the Columbia River. Oceangoing steamers can dock at Longview. It is a little west of Portland...
...Bros, are keeping their production schedule below demand. "As of April 24 ... [3,300] dealers in the U. S. had on hand 26,921 new cars and trucks, against which they held 17,568 signed orders . . . the small surplus being reduced ... [a fortnight ago] 8,264 cars [shipped] and retail deliveries 9,566." (President E. G. Wilmer...
...spring trade has not yet made itself felt appreciably. Motor car and steel makers are under quantity production, although the former have retarded a bit. The Pennsylvania Railroad last week placed a $14,000,000 locomotive order. On the whole, though, dealers in moot lines sense diminished future retail buyings and are keeping stocks low. In the automotive field, makers are not forcing cars on dealers...
...Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., the National Industrial and Traffic League, the U. S. Rubber Co., the National Retail Grocers' Associations and the New England Textile Industries, all sent representatives who objected to the change...