Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago, the opinion was general that the saturation point for the motor industry had been about reached and that output must henceforth be curtailed rather than expanded. This spring, however, motors have again staged a vigorous come-back under heavy retail sales...
Perhaps a still more valid cause is that most professors, even in the most elementary of courses, presuppose on the part of their students, an interest which does not exist. For that reason, they feel that they are fulfilling their duties if they retail the facts, in no matter how cold and dreary a manner. For graduate students, already deeply engrossed in their work, this assumption may apply, but as concerns undergraduates it is a serious fallacy...
Requests have been coming to the University from business schools throughout the country for an explanation of the case system schools. Professor David, who was the originator of the case system in teaching retail store management and insurance banking, has therefore been asked to explain his method at the conference...
...valuable contributions to reform in the jewelry industry, the Harvard Bureau of Business Research has received the endorsement of the Massachusetts Rhode Island Retail Jewelers Association...
...commodities can be named retail or wholesale that today sell for less than they did 40 years ago. One of the exceptions is electric power. The steady development of the industry and the consequent expansion of electric lighting has led to a striking and steady reduction in the cost of the service to the consumer...