Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make sure that the amazing upswing in trade since last November was really true. Cornerstone of the improvement, said Dun & Bradstreet, was "the strongest desire to buy that the public has displayed since Wartime days." Despite bad weather in certain sections, the final surge of Easter buying boosted retail sales to the highest level in three years and 70% above last year. Sears, Roebuck reported March sales up 57% from 1933. Spectacular reports were expected from the chainstores...
...Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. In 1913, the Ford Motor Company, who up to this time had not built either the Cambridge or Somerville assembly plants, rented space for thirty-five cars, and made Mr. William E. Furniss an agent. The following year, the Ford Company decided that they would retail cars through dealers, and accordingly signed up the Harvard Automobile Co. as Authorized Distributors. For twenty years they have been exclusively official Ford sales and service representatives. Mr. William E. Furniss is still President of the Company, and actively engaged in the business, together with his son, Mr. Elwyn S. Furniss...
...year was precisely 100% above the figure for the same period of 1933. Steel scrap prices, which generally forecast the trend of steel activity, rose to a 3½-year high at $14.50 per ton. Brightest spot was the Detroit area where mills were running at 100% capacity. Retail sales boomed again after the quiet interlude brought by storms and bitter weather. New England merchants reported a gain of 8.9% for February but the average gain for the U. S. was estimated to be 20% to 25%. Springfield (Mass.) reported a jump of 62%. ]. J. C. Penney's chain...
...Wrigley, Beech-Nut, and American Chicle, which together make about 95% of all the gum chewed in the U. S., that clause is no burden. National advertising has built up their consumer demand. But when Tom Huston's salesmen approach a retailer with an unknown brand like Julep the retailer wants a money-back agreement in case the gum does not sell. Tom Huston says that none of his 40,000 retail outlets have ever called on him to make good his money-back agreement, but that in new territory his salesmen cannot sell without...
There is, of course, the danger--and it is by no means a slight one--that prices of rum will be maintained on about the present level by the retail liquor stores and that they will simply pocket the extra profit. If this happens the Federal government should take steps to insure the sale of the rum at a decent price to the consumer, for the whole project is being financed by the government out of the funds of the Public Works Administration, and in view of this public character of the work it should certainly not be permitted...