Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, the Independent Milk Dealers of Northern Illinois were last week seeking an injunction against the licensing provisions of a district milk marketing agreement which Secretary of Agriculture Wallace had drawn up and a majority of the distributors in the area had signed. This agreement fixed the minimum retail price at 10? per quart beginning Aug. 1. Dealers selling milk at less were made liable to revocation of their Federal licenses and subject to a fine of $1,000 a day. The Independent Dealers objected to the 10? minimum price on the ground that it allowed no differential between...
...that they received an average of only 2? per quart and irked by the Milk Board's refusal to allow them a better price, last week canceled their deliveries, went on strike. They demanded the abolition of the classified price system, a blanket rate of 45% of the retail price or approximately 5? a quart. The strikers dumped their milk into troughs and ditches, set up pickets to prevent non-strikers from making deliveries. Boonville, 27 mi. north of Utica, became the focal point of disorder which finally required the armed services of most of the State Police. Some...
...spirits for blending purposes. For whiskey is not made in a day but in four to five years. Old whiskey will be cut with new or with grain alcohol. But because whiskey is cheap to make (as low as 60? a gallon in Canada where four-fifths of the retail price is tax), many a local promoter was drafting plans last week for a small distillery, when and if. There are only seven U. S. whiskey companies in business today. Under Federal license they produce medicinal whiskey. Five of them are privately owned-one in Philadelphia, five in bourbon-making...
...pound to 8? hogs from $2.85 a cwt. to $4.60. Between $2,000,000.000 and $3,000,000,000 has been added to the value of U. S. crops. A booming New Deal market has swelled stock values $12,000,000,000 and bond values $2,000,000,000. Retail prices have risen much more slowly. Last week Fairchild Publications retail price index was only 1.4% above...
Charles M. Schwab and his Iron & Steel Institute last fortnight "gladly accepted" the Roosevelt "partnership." And last week the following industries, through their trade associations, were swinging into line: Southern Pine Manufacturers, National Retail Dry Goods Association, Merchants Ladies' Garment Association, Musical Merchandise Industry, Marketing Devices Industry, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Anthracite Institute, American Oil Burner Association...