Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropped as inexpedient and last week Missouri's new sales tax law went into effect. Promptly the State began to provide its citizens with means of paying fractional cent levies when all banks put on sale milk bottle caps inscribed with the State seal and labeled "Missouri Retailers Sales Tax Receipt." Those with blue circles were worth one mill in taxes, those with orange circles, five mills. In theory citizens paid their sales tax in advance upon purchasing these bottle tops from the banks. In practice, they took bottle tops in change from retail merchants for that part...
McCrory. Operating 203 5¢ to $1 retail units in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, the South and Midwest, McCrory Stores Corp. slipped into bankruptcy in 1933, came under the broad roof of Section 77b a year and a half later. Old John G. McCrory, who founded the chain at Scottdale, Pa. in 1882, resigned as board chairman to be free to bid for the bankrupt properties. But in the stormy annals of McCrory's reorganization it was not John G. McCrory who played the major role but two brothers named George Keenan Morrow and Frederick Morrow...
...revamping American Cotton Oil Co., had built up an enviable reputation as smart corporate reorganizers. After 1929 the Morrows were once set back on their heels when United Cigar Stores, which they controlled, went bankrupt. But their troubles with United Cigar did not prevent them from acquiring another damaged retail chain last year, McLellan Stores (TIME...
...York the common stock of Macy's, Best's, Allied Stores, Federated Department Stores and other retail houses broke into new high ground. In high good humor the National Retail Dry Goods Association, summarizing a round-robin of retail opinion, declared: "If the present forecasts for retailing in the fall of 1935 are in any way realized, we shall experience the best fall season since...
...company in 1929 and "caused his name to be forged on papers and letters," he demanded $1,500,000 damages and complete vindication of blame for the shady stock deals. Page & Shaw has never recovered from the Dunham spree. It still operates a factory in Cambridge, but all its retail stores have been closed. Most of its candy is sold today through drug stores and specialty shops...