Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barbara and her son Lance, whose ship companions included legally separated Husband Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and Barbara's rumored choice for a third husband, Robert Sweeny, amateur golfer & investment broker. On the dock Countess Barbara was greeted by pickets of Woolworth stores from the C. I. O. United Retail and Wholesale Employes of America, bearing such signs as "Babs, we live on $15.60 a week. Could you?" "Babs flees Europe for peace. What about peace for the union?" Piqued, Barbara said: "Welcome home, I don't think." Said Robert Sweeny, "Oh, this is all very...
...Federation has always been its construction unions. Now the A. F. of L. membership base is shifting and widening. Biggest gainer-and biggest union in the Federation-is Dan Tobin's Teamsters, up 40,800 to 350,000. Coming up fast are the butchers, laundry workers, operating engineers, retail clerks, hatters. Tough, clever George E. Browne's stagehands (up 14,200 to 42,000) lost their fight to hog all theatrical performers (TIME, Aug. 21) but they have just won another and vital struggle to keep A. F. of L. supreme in Hollywood studios, downing...
...trade, are reopening as a result of the war boom in uniforms. Hardest hit were typists, stenographers, clerks, sacked when firms folded up or skeletonized their staffs as they deserted the big towns. Shopgirls getting 30 to 40 shillings a week were dropped by the hundreds because with evacuations retail trade slumped badly. In London, Selfridge's had to let 1,000 go, John Lewis dismissed 300, gave the rest a 25% pay cut. Even the tarts had an unemployment problem due to the nightly blackouts...
...monograph on the payment of retail executives published today by the Bureau of Business Research, Baker points out that executives must be rewarded in a manner which will develop an appreciation of their responsibilities to society...
...accounting, photography, line-typing, landscaping, playwriting, paint spraying, carpentry, coaching, reporting, operating a switchboard, plumbing, sign painting, window dressing, masonry, and refrigerator repairing. Seventy-six have applied for odd-job chore work, 59 for waiting on table, 42 for chauffeuring, 29 for room-for-service jobs, 26 for retail sales work, 25 for typing, three for reading, and two for work as subjects in psychology experiments...