Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate legal weapon to force rayon producers to obey the rules,* but the National Retail Dry Goods Association was last week urging all its members to do so. The N.R.D.G.A. regards fibre identification as one more inevitable manifestation of the consumer research and protection movement that has been spreading through the U. S. for the past decade. But many a rayon man, forced into expensive changes of his production and advertising systems, thinks differently, and various rayon groups have spent the three weeks since the original FTC decision trying hard to get it altered. Last week Erwin Feldman, counsel...
...cigar stores of United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., which dot the country like an attack of measles, have long been filled to bursting with Mickey Mouse watches, G-Man automatics, shoe trees- and only incidentally, cigars. Last week Schulte Retail Stores Corp. announced that it was no longer confining itself to tobacco, was opening its shelves to just about everything else...
...Schulte Retail Stores Corp. has had its ups & downs-or more precisely, one up & one down. It controls Huyler's as well as the 268 Schulte shops mostly on U. S. street corners. President David Albert Schulte is also president of Dunhill International, Inc. and with associates controls Park & Tilford. In 1926 Schulte Retail earned over $6,000,000 on total assets of a little more than $40,000,000. And yet in 1936, though its customers were smoking more furiously than ever, Schulte Retail Stores filed for reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act. Reason was Mr. Schulte...
Some 60% of all U. S. passenger automobiles are sold at retail on deferred payments which are financed by discount companies. In 1925 there were 1,500 of such independent companies. Today there are only 500 because the business has been more & more dominated by General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit Co. (Chrysler), Commercial Investment Trust (Nash, Hudson, Auburn, Studebaker), and C. I. T.'s subsidiary, Universal Credit Corp. (Ford). Last year these four handled 75% of all new car financing, 65% of the used car and 80% of the wholesale...
...Middle West, not exclusive in California, downright common in Boston and a mass organization in New York, where booksellers, publishers, authors, reviewers and readers are concentrated. The aggressive price-cutting department of R. H. Macy's department store does almost five per cent of the U. S. retail book business, ten per cent of New York's retail business. Boston's historic Old Corner Bookshop does about one per cent of the nation's retail book business and most of Boston...