Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retail inventories, Editor Stanley Shaw of Standard Trade & Securities last week declared: "The majority of large retail distributors appear confident that by the end of their fiscal years on Jan. 31, total inventories, which in many cases showed increases as high as 10% to 20% above year earlier levels last fall, will be down to within 3% to 5% of those carried at the fiscal year-end in 1937." Automobile factories work on an order basis and so have rather small current inventories of cars. But GM dealers alone, according to President Knudsen, now have some 200,000 cars...
...long been known that the Marshall Field retail business lost money only once, in 1932, that what had dragged the company deeply into the red was its huge wholesale business. Chairman McKinsey's first reform was to lop off the wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. This was an eminently smart move, as was also his reorganization of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space. The Mart has still to make money but McKinsey management rented...
Neatly pasted on the inside of an old violin newly discovered in somebody's attic, many a musty label bearing such an inscription has caused hearts to beat faster. Most violins so discovered are fakes or "copies" made in Italy, Germany or Japan to retail at between $5 and $50. Real "Strads," violins made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, bring from $10,000 to $85,000. There are only about 540 authentic known Strads in existence, 163 of which are owned in the U. S., and when one of them changes hands the cat-eyed dealers and collectors...
Business School: Fred J. Kennedy prize, given to the second year student submitting the best written report in the class on retail distribution, to Eaton W. Ballard, of Seattle, Washington; A. Shuman scholarship, for the second year student who achieved the best record in his first full year at the school, went to William T. Rhame, of Wyoming, Ohio; and a special scholarship to Edward de Jongh, 1GB, of Brooklyn, New York...
...three million brown muskrats are caught annually by fur companies like Orange Cameron Land Co. in the Louisiana bayous, the great U. S. muskrat country. Their pelts retail at from 50? to $1.25., But prime muskrat is black muskrat, whose native habitat is around the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and whose pelts bring $2. With the money he got for his trap factory Mr. Gibbs promptly bought 3,000 acres of muskrat marsh on Currituck Sound, N. C., began transferring his black muskrats south. More than half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped...