Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most remarkable fact about all GOP computations is that, regardless of the number of taxes on a product, the amount that they represent is persistently the same-about 20% of the retail price. Thus, though a 10? loaf of bread's 2? tax represents a mere 58 taxes, TIME'S 1,793,000 taxes would amount to only a penny more...
...McLaughlin as style counselor to the Formfit Co. (corsets). In charge of the Formfit account for the L. D. Wertheimer Advertising Agency was an executive who thought Mrs. McLaughlin had greater commercial possibilities than the Formfit job brought forth. Soon Adman George Enzinger had Mrs. McLaughlin running a retail hat shop on Chicago's smart Near North Side. When the hat shop was abandoned, Mrs. McLaughlin went into the wholesale millinery trade. As designer and working boss of Irene Castle, Inc., she has toured the West, put her product in 52 stores in 52 cities. Both comely Mrs. McLaughlin...
Three days later New York City's big milk distributors, including Borden's and Sheffield Farms, boosted the retail price of Grade B milk from 13? per qt. to 14? per qt., voluntarily raised the price paid farmers for fluid milk...
Because the anti-trust laws prevent manufacturers from fixing the retail price of their product, competition has forced the retail margin of profit down to a hairline on the popular brands of cigarets. At two-for-a-quarter the Big Three retail for $6.25 a 1,000. Retailer's profit, allowing discount, is less than i^ per package. Philip Morris, which sold 3,800 million cigarets last year, has generally been able to maintain a retail price of 15? straight, or $7.50 per 1,000. Wholesaling at $6.85 per 1,000, Philip Morrises make the retailer well over...
...first eight months of 1936 had been 43,459 cars or 70% above a year ago. And on display, along with the Packard Twelve, the Packard Super-Eight, the Packard Eight and the Packard One-Twenty, was a brand new Packard Six with a 115 in. wheelbase priced to retail in the $800 class. This latest and cheapest addition to the Packard line is scheduled for delivery in a few days...