Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with the current season waning fast, musicians and musicians' managers concerned themselves with plans for next year. Like any other business, goes music in the U. S. Artists are the com- modities monopolized by a few wholesale managers who sell to retail or local managers who in turn sell concerts to the public. Last week many a sales letter went out from Manhattan wholesalers' offices. Some 25 musical salesmen conferred with local dealers directly, boasted of the talents of their particular artists, haggled over prices. From their sales results, from box-office returns of the past...
...proofs were to be had, the issues being closed, and quoting specific prices. But after the prints were placed on sale, the British dealers would send agents to collectors in various parts of the U. S. and offer prints of their "closed" issues at less than the U. S. retail prices. Naturally, the collectors thought they were being overcharged by U. S. dealers...
...Nineteenth Annual Convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, at Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan...
...Annual Convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, Pennsylvania Hotel, Manhattan...
...Pacific coast last week was Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, conferring and inspecting. Generally accepted in the oil industry as the objects of his visit were: 1) A merger of Sinclair Consolidated Oil, Prairie Oil & Gas and Rio Grande Oil; 2) sale of Sinclair's eastern retail outlets to Standard of California...