Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Dakota Governor William Henry McMaster started a " gasoline war" by cutting the retail price to 16¢. a gallon (TIME, Aug. 27). Governor McMaster is now talked of as a possible Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican ticket next year...
...Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma ? were affected by the 6.6¢ cut made by the Standard of Indiana. In addition, the Standard of Kentucky made a cut of 1¢ in Kentucky, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia. The Standard of Nebraska cut its retail prices to 16¼¢. Slight cuts followed in the Eastern states. W. C. Teagle (President of the Standard of New Jersey) declared that, unless crude oil prices continued to fall, further cuts in retail gasoline prices were unlikely...
...Government should exercise control of the industry and also, if at any time the supply of anthracite is cut off by labor troubles or otherwise, the President should be empowered to declare an emergency, take over the mines temporarily, fix wages, mine, transport and distribute coal. ¶The retail price of anthracite has practically doubled in ten years. ¶About 50 cents of the consumer's dollar goes to pay for coal at the mine, the remainder paying for transportation, distribution, retailers' and jobbers' profits. ¶Of this same dollar about eleven cents, altogether, goes as profit...
...stock market, usually a reliable trade barometer, would argue a decrease in general business activity in the coming months. On the other hand, the security market was undoubtedly inflated, and its recent fall may therefore be due to purely inherent conditions. Money remains easy, and with high wages the retail trade should feel little anxiety for the approaching season...
...just want to say," said the attorney general for the National Association of Retail Druggists, "that although I was with the Republican National Committee for 20 years, I am advocating a Democrat for the next President and I shall use my influence with the 50,000 druggists of the United States...