Word: retail
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Last year some 1,600,000 doz. golf balls were sold in the U. S. at a retail price of $9 a doz., wholesale of $5.60. To help finance its services, most of which are offered free, PGA sells golf balls through its members. The Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association includes many top-rank U. S. makers of sporting goods* and, according to the FTC, its members own or control almost every U. S. golf ball factory. Each member company in the association makes a number of balls stamped PGA which are usually of higher quality than balls bearing other...
...survey of American Automobile Association garages showed that about 1,500,000 U. S. motorists ran out of gas on the road last year. This was half again as many as in 1935. Said Mr. Roberts: "The surprising thing about this record is that there are some 325,000 retail gasoline outlets in the nation, or approximately one for every mile of surfaced highway in the State systems, and every modern-day car is equipped with a gauge...
This easing and broadening of installment credit has already brought cries of alarm from the National Retail Dry Goods Association, will undoubtedly call for further alarm when the Association meets for a mid-year convention in Chicago this week. So far N.R.D.G.A. does not consider the actual volume of installment credit ominous. Installment sales last year probably ran about $4,500,000,000, may run as high as $5,000,000,000 this year- still considerably under the 1929 total...
...late Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton's English business was incorporated as a public company in 1898, but his businesses in the U. S. and Canada he kept as private enterprises until his death in 1931. Sir Thomas never went into the retail business in the U. S. as he did in England. His genial, perennial challenges for the America's Cup (in 1899, 1901, 1903. 1914, 1920, 1930), most remarkable advertising feats of a born salesman's career helped to make Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. the biggest tea-packing company in the U. S. Only Great Atlantic...
...addition to those direct taxes on gasoline in Mississippi, distributors must pay license fees up to $250, depending upon the size of their storage tanks, and retail gasoline dealers pay license fees up to $15 annually for each pump, the amount depending upon the size of the municipality...