Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the first quarter of 1937, despite strikes and high water, the automobile industry set four new sales records. The Automobile Manufacturers Association announced last week that total U. S. retail motor sales for March were highest on record for that month (480.253), that March truck sales were at an alftime high (72,840), that for the first three months of the year total sales set an alltime record (1,041,301), as did truck sales...
...regular customers Hart Schaffner & Marx looks to the man making between $2,500 and $6,000 per year and living 11 cities of 200,000 to 500,000. Always close to its retailers, Hart Schaffner & Marx often helps them out with advances, sometimes has to take over a store to protect its involuntary investment. Occasionally it buys out a retailer who is going out of business, to preserve a good outlet. Wallach's with nine stores in and around Manhattan is now a Hart Schaffner & Marx subsidiary, having been bought after the original owners announced that they intended...
...Hood was bearish on the future of U. S. coops, pointing out that European co-ops flourished because they satisfied basic economic needs. Concluded he: "It may thus be seen that the chief factors accounting for the remarkable development of consumer co-operation in Europe are: 1) exceedingly inefficient retail distribution ... 2) class loyalty to their own institutions given by repressed industrial workers, who in Europe are not as migratory and mobile a class as in the U. S.; 3) a deeply ingrained thrift or savings motive . . . and 4) in recent years, strongly financed central co-operative wholesales able...
...Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act of 1935 was Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., publishers, v. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935). No facts were disputed. Macy's admitted selling books at prices lower than those agreed upon between Doubleday, Doran and its retail affiliate. New York Supreme Court Justice Frederick P. Close decided Macy's could sell books at whatever price it chose, declared the Feld-Crawford Act unconstitutional (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935). Opined he: "The act attempts to give to private persons unlimited power over the property of others." The State...
...Court. That court has [now] taken a different view ... so we feel it to be our duty to submit our own judgment to the rulings of the Supreme Court on the Constitution." Immediate effect of the opinion in Manhattan was to end a cat-&-dog price fight in the retail liquor business. Publishers and cosmetic makers at last foresaw the end of cut-throat price competition in the nation's No. 1 buying State.* Second day after the Albany flip-flop mammoth Macy's which traditionally "will not be undersold," announced what the world's biggest department...