Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grocers calculated that the President was inefficient in buying White House food at retail instead of wholesale. Since March 4, they computed, the President and Mrs. Hoover have not passed a day without having guests at one or more meals. Some 1,400 guests ate at the White House in a little over six months, including 200 house guests and 250 week-end guests at the Virginia camp. Wholesale savings on butter, eggs, bread, tradesmen said, could have been considerable. But the U. S. Government has no cause to object. Food eaten by all except official guests is paid...
...seven times in spite of expenditures of $14,000,000 for research. Sales last year were over $13,000,000, net profit $1,368,300. Squibb customers number some 700 physicians' supply houses and wholesalers, 700 boards of health, 1,300 medical clinics, 5,000 hospitals, 27,000 retail druggists...
...been engaged in distributing trademarked food products, soap, washing and scouring powders, shoe polishes, other articles. Natural was the assumption that United Cigar Stores, Whelan Drug Stores, the other Tobacco Products Corp. outlets, which altogether number some 92,000 stores reaching from coast to coast, would (become potent retail points for Gold Dust products...
...against the four national meat packers-Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Wilson & Co., Cudahy Packing Co. There was no trial, for the packers went into court and consented to having a decree issued forbidding them to deal in other products than meat and its derivatives, likewise forbidding them to establish retail stores. In nine years, two major attempts have been made to have the decree rescinded. The U. S. Supreme Court in all its venerability each time reaffirmed the decree...
...publisher's agent of the future threatens, or promises, to be not so much the retail bookseller any more, as the literary club with its thousands of book-a-month readers who are generally subscribers-by-the-year. Book-of-the-Month Club, which merely selects and sends books at no great reduction, has the largest number of subscribers. Literary Guild, cheaper, selects and sends as well as does its own binding, has second largest subscription list. Others more or less similar, are the following, supplied by the Publishers' Weekly, publishing trade organ: Paper Books, Limited Editions Club...