Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dull summer season in retail stores added 40,000 to the unemployed...
Also appeared last week clear evidence that the public is spending money. Retail trade in August exceeded estimates, was last week in some places running as high as 45% ahead of last year. Cinema attendance was running as much as 15% above a year ago. Manhattan hotel trade in August topped the same month...
...stock the merchants will offer the discount. Persons familiar with the Harvard Square trade have expressed the opinion to the CRIMSON that the list of items upon which discounts will be given will be so limited by the number of items upon which manufacturers insist upon obtaining published retail prices, and also by those in which the margin of retail profit is already small, that the service will not be entirely satisfactory to student members...
Front-page stories from Washington reported that NRA was about to be reorganized. They still had the jitters. Retail sales were good last week and even heavy industries showed a slight improvement. And still they had the jitters...
...Consumers' Counsel of AAA calculated that retail food prices had risen 12% in a year. The National Industrial Conference Board calculated a 21.5% rise in food prices from April 1933 to the close of last July. With bigger price rises ahead, consumers might find the prospect gloomy but the Department of Agriculture officially reassured them: "What shortages do exist can be compensated for by shifts in the diet to use more of the foods which are available in abundance. As a whole, these shifts can be accomplished without any severe burden on consumers as to cost, or any material decrease...