Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyers, pondering the decision, foresaw that this enthusiasm might assume too much. Only the Wilson Dam had been declared legal. Some other dam might be found otherwise. The Court did not pass on the right of the Government to retail electricity, only to take the necessary steps to get rid of a byproduct. Nor did the Court pass on the right of the Government to distribute its power for social purposes in a wider area than would constitute a "reasonable market." However, TVA men had a right to rejoice: They had been freed of a major legal threat, could accomplish...
...Chicago last week Retail Butchers William Kessler, Charles Kessler and Louis Feldman sued U. S. meat packers for some $33,000,000. They wanted some $20,000,000 from Armour & Co. and Swift & Co., the remainder from 28 smaller packers. The amount claimed represented part of the processing tax money which had been put in escrow pending the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of AAA (TIME, Jan. 20). When that question was inexorably answered in the negative last month, packers (in Chicago and elsewhere) promptly recovered taxes totaling some $50,000,000. Meanwhile processors of other farm...
...milk product company, a big Oregon lumber concern, a huge construction company, and the $50,000,000 Eccles group of banks. In addition he was vice president of Amalgamated Sugar Co., a director of a railroad, a hotel company, a farm implement company, a retail lumber organization. All this was achieved in less than 20 years from the time he set up Eccles Investment Co. to manage the $2,000,000 estate bequeathed to his mother and her children. His share of the property was some $200,000. The chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
Automobile production for 1935 was 4,150,000 units, an increase over 1934 of 45%. The building industry, notably in the Residential field, turned sharply upward. Volume of 1935 retail trade was estimated to have been as high as $33,000,000,000-18% above 1934. Industries with new all-time records included power, shoes, gasoline, electric refrigerators, Diesel engines, cigarets, oil burners, plate glass, rayon, airlines. Excess bank reserves climbed $1,000,000,000, and U. S. gold stocks increased from $8,200,000,000 to nearly $10,000,000,000. Capital markets reopened; the Blue Eagle was killed...
...retail grocers...