Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another like award was given to Pedlar & Ryan, Inc., Manhattan agency, and Ovington's Manhattan specialty store, for the best local retail campaign...
Televisor. In London, a concern called Television Ltd. obtained licenses to retail the "televisor," a radio device invented by John L. Baird* of Glasgow that permits "looking in" as well as listening in. Broadcasting from a televisor station in London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense...
...make dry-goods men, furniture men, carpet men, glass, china and home-fixture men look funny. But last week they had their answer. "Where would the American home be without the dry-goods industry?" was asked, and well and fitly answered at the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan...
...spends 22 billions for food annually. About 365,000 retail stores sell to the housewife, of which 40,000 are chain stores. The chain systems will be the first annexed by National Food Products. Already the new corporation claims an investment of $4,500,000, but not control, in 12 systems operating 2,000 stores in 20 states. Among these chains: the H. C. Bohack Co. (300 stores, chiefly in Brooklyn); James Butler Inc.; Borden Milk Co.; U. S. Stores Corporation (1,050 grocery and meat stores in 12 states); David Pender Grocery Co. (Virginia); First National Stores, Inc. (Boston...
...Quiet ladies took the ejaculation seriously, echoing it with a "Good gracious" or a "Mercy me." Metropolitan wags relapsed into the facetious falsetto with which they retail remarks that appeal to them as effeminate. Honest men stared, read under the headline an article which informed them that "Oh, Dear" was the actual name of the Prince's horse. These men had a curt criticism of the headline writer's awkward and flippant line. "Stupid," they said...