Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WhoIesalers generally quote old potatoes in 100-lb. bags, new potatoes in 165-lb. barrels. Retail, a 5-lb. bag of new potatoes now costs 29? as against 7? a year...
...Landon boom. The Dow-Jones industrial stock averages rose 3½ points to 154, utility averages about a point to 32, rail averages less than a point to 46½. Credit for even these gains had to be divided with a big batch of favorable business items, particularly in retail trade, which had been rolling at the best levels since 1930 and was ready-set for distribution of the Bonus, a $1,900,000,000 shot in the retail...
Only banks, wholesalers and manufacturers belong to the Association, retail credit being a wide field unto itself. NACM facilitates the pooling of credit information. Every bank, every company that extends credit is constantly prying into the private affairs of its customers. They study balance sheets, earnings statements, profit & loss accounts, weigh character, reputation, personal habits. But the final element in credit is "ledger experience," the record of how bills were paid in the past. Local credit associations collect ledger experience from their members, pass it on to a national clearing house in the National Association. Between...
...Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1908-1919, Professor Gay sponsored many pioneer features in the new field of university business education, among them the first comprehensive program of business research in the United States, involving the collection and analysis of figures showing the margins, expenses, and profits of retail and wholesale business. As Professor of Economic History, since 1924, he has studied extensively the nature and results of the nineteenth century industrial revolution...
...Retail sales for the first quarter of 1936 also set a record for that period. Even more significant, GM's March sales were 89% above those in February. Some of this gain was probably the result of bad weather, which made prospective buyers put off their purchase until the first hint of spring. Yet the February-March gain in 1935 was only...