Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rash all over the land last week. They are pumping oil in East Texas now instead of just piping it off but that paradise of the little fellow is merrily producing at least 100,000 bbl. of oil daily in excess of all allotments- all "hot"' oil. The retail price of gasoline has been threatened for more than a year by "distress stocks"-largely gasoline refined by slimly-financed independents. As an alternative to price-fixing. Oil Administrator Ickes gave his blessings to a pool backed by major companies which took the distress gasoline off the market. Belatedly...
...first week of October, some sixty-odd millions were pumped from the public reservoir into private pockets against fourteen millions for the comparable period in September. With election day only a month away, the meretriciously minded may suspect an ulterior motive for this sudden increase in the blood transfusion. Retail trade and the consumer goods industry in general will respond favorably to this infusion. The obverse side of the picture is less heartening with an impending decline in oil prices, as well as restricted motor production until stock in the hands of the dealer has been moved. Commodity prices have...
...reproach among hogs to be a bit of a swine and the influence of the Corn-Hog money dispensation reflects itself very clearly in retail trade which points upward for the next several weeks. Despite a sharp decline in grain prices caused by a drop in sterling and the favorable crop reports in Canada and the Argentine, farm stocks have been very buoyant, which indicates that fodder for the farmer from the Government silo is as efficacious as high prices for his products...
...best indications now are that a slow laborious upturn in business is in the making and may show possibly a greater than seasonal advance during the coming weeks. Perhaps the most encouraging index is the activity in retail merchandising. This advance is due directly to governmental spending. The government is not only priming but pumping the pump. An industrial truce as suggested by the President would prove extremely helpful to business in general...
...scenarists. Since he is not, it is surprising that more of his works have not been copied or adapted for the cinema. The Count of Monte Cristo is one of two productions on the current schedule of a two-year-old Hollywood company which plans to make feature pictures retail instead of wholesale. It is a first-rate translation of one of Dumas' most picturesque stories. In it, a handsome, blond British actor named Robert Donat appears as Dantes, the French officer who, unjustly imprisoned in a dungeon, escapes to find buried treasure on a desert island and returns...