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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosperity certificates started off fairly well. They were used to pay in part relief workers, legislators, Cabinet members, Premier Aberhart. They were accepted by most retail stores. The first day, Alberta merchants gave "hard money" change to purchasers with prosperity certificates. On second thought they made change in credit slips or required buyers to spend a whole certificate. A list of wholesalers who had agreed to accept certificates from retailers was published. Trumpeted Premier Aberhart: "You'll have to get used to using something else than this little thing [waving a real dollar bill] for money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fresh Money | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...three long days last week in Chicago's Stevens Hotel drums boomed, pianos banged, guitars twanged, trumpets tootled, piccolos shrilled, saxophones squealed, kazoos squawked, tubas oomped. Assembled there were some 2,000 of the sobersided businessmen who supply U. S. music with everything except talent. Retailers gathered for the annual conventions of the National Association of Music Merchants, the National Retail Musical Instrument Dealers Association and the National Association of Sheet Music Dealers. Wholesalers appeared to curry favor with retailers, to attend the annual meeting of the National Association of Musical Merchandise Wholesalers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Merchants of Music | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

Music men go in heavily for pep-talks, high-pressure promotion. A poignant little editorial in the Etude Music Magazine last year related the tale of a millionaire's daughter who was saved from something worse than death by staying home to practice on her piano. Retail association heads exhort the trade to avoid competitive squabbles. Thundered NAMM's President Alfred D. LaMotte in the convention issue of Piano Trade Magazine: "I protest most vigorously any implication that there is any real competition between pianos and piccolos, accordions and ocarinas or harmonicas and harps." Pianos. In 1935 about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Merchants of Music | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...President's commission will find the world's most efficient cooperative, Kooperativa Förbundet (union), known throughout the land as "K. F." K. F. accounts for 10% of all manufacturing in Sweden and, through its thousands of member co-operative societies, for 20% of all retail and wholesale trade. Swedish co-operative stores are the most modern in the country. Their wages are high, their salaries low. One by one, K. F. has cracked the tightest cartels in Europe, notably in margarine, electric bulbs and galoshes, a Swedish necessity. Its combat tactics are simply to go into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Co-Ops | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...operatives are even bigger business in Britain, where about half the families are co-op members, and co-operative stores do about one-eighth of the total British retail business. As a whole the British co-operatives employ about 300,000 people, sell more than $1,000,000,000 worth of goods annually. The English Co-Operative Wholesale Society, corresponding to Sweden's K. F., is the biggest distributing organization in the British Empire. It has a $700,000,000 bank, a $100,000,000 insurance company. It owns its own steamships, coal mines, olive groves, and, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Co-Ops | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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