Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference of Catholic Charities (see p. 13). At his town house he received General Hugh Samuel Johnson, just out of the hospital where he had been nursing a painful boil. For him President Roosevelt signed 17 NRA codes, most important of which were those for banks, boot & shoe manufacturers, retail lumber dealers, retail automobile dealers...
Marshaling his parade toward Recovery, by last week President Roosevelt had swung Industry into line with a series of NRA codes. The nation's storekeepers were being regimented under a Retail Code. He was about to turn his attention to the nation's consumers, whose purchasing power was to be set in motion with a "Buy Now" campaign. Special posters, silhouets of the Capitol in blue, were rolling from the presses. Individual manufacturers were ready to launch private advertising campaigns. General Hugh Johnson declared that the "flat wallet era" was about...
Having waved over mine, shop and factory, the magic wand of the NRA was last week poised for its last big sweep, over the retail stores of the land. After public incantations which began in August and backstage sorcery continued all through September, the Retail Code was nearly ready for the President to approve and invoke...
...Bradstreet reported a sharp gain in retail buying. Housewives, who had lofted department store sales in August 16% above the 1932 level, were flocking back to the counters; the downward sweep of the long-delayed normal summer slump seemed to be flattening out. Best buying was in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. Said D. & B.: ''No small part of the maintenance during the last few weeks of the headway made during the spring and summer months is attributable directly to the relentless enterprise of the NRA. . . . There has been no abatement in the rise of employment...
...still lacked effective machinery to cope with the price rises it was stimulating. Retail prices went up 8% during August, 18% since...