Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quantities. No purchaser may buy from a retail store at one time more than three quarts of liquor or more than three gallons of wine, but he may buy in case lots for home use from wholesalers...
...there is no insuperable obstacle to its being upheld. The emergency caused by the depression may be used as a ground for either overruling or distinguishing decisions which might otherwise serve as a basis for overthrowing the Act. The article prophesies, however, that the codes for purely local business retail trade and the like will be held unenforceable...
Died. B. Elaine Fox, 48. president of Clover Farm Stores Co. (4,000 stores), NRA retail and grocery code adviser; of exhaustion after four-and-a-half days of constant hiccoughing; in Charleroi...
...thousands of fur dealers, dressers, dyers, manufacturers, retailers and their employes throughout the land last week was National Fur Week. They did their best through Press, radio, cinema, window displays and fashion shows to make the rest of the U. S. aware of fur. anxious to own some. Warmish weather handicapped them in New York and other sections, but by the end of the week they felt they were off to a prosperous season. Fur men had other reasons for feeling cheerful last week.* They had begun 1933 with three bleak years behind them. Both manufacturers and retailers had swung...
...Retail Code which President Roosevelt signed last week differed in two major respects from the one which General Johnson had brought to his desk. Replacing the section which forbade sales at less than manufacturers' net invoice cost plus 10% (the section opposed by President Percy Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. and by consumer organizations- TIME, Oct. 16), the President inserted a provision merely prohibiting sales at less than cost. This, General Johnson explained, was to prevent farmers from complaining that the NRA arbitrarily raises the prices of the things they buy. In the draft the President signed, almost...