Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of the University Business School is jointly sponsoring the meeting, which it is planned to supplement by others of a similar nature. Among the other organizations under whose auspices the series of meetings is being organized, are the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the Society for Mental Hygiene, the Retail Trade Board of Boston, the Society of Industrial Engineers and the Manufacturers' Research Association...
...retail outlook for the coming Christmas is bright. Moreover unlike the famous "silk shirt" Christmas of 1919, the buying promises to extend to many sorts of articles, instead of simply to luxury products. Most of this cheerful outlook is based on present conditions of high employment and high wages...
...Pertinax, Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris... Those two gentlemen were voluble in their protestations. They exhibited an entire unwillingness to believe that the U. S. demand for payment in full on something like the terms to Great Britain was serious. Mr. Lauzanne went so far as to retail a rather malicious story...
Harpers for October contains a strange little skit on the magic arts of the Bushnegroes in Dutch Guiana by John W. Vandercook, actor, editorial writer, and Yale man. The editors of the magazine, in introducing Mr. Vandercook, retail from his confidential confessions a sentence which is more significant than anything in the article itself. One year at Yale, it seems, was all Mr. Vandercook could stand. Unfortunately the details of that year are not given. Perhaps in the interest of truth and the unsuspecting youth of America, Mr. Vandercook is reserving them for another article. But at least a certain...
Although the retail grocer has the highest turnover, yet wholesalers as a class outrank retailers in this respect. The fact that all stocks of clothing and groceries turn over twice as rapidly as drugs, hardware and shoes throws considerable light on the greater success of chain store organizations of late years in just these two fields...