Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eirma. In Evanston, Ill. city employes received their pay in the form of "Eirma" money, named from the initials of the Evanston Independent Retail Merchants' Association. Merchants agreed to accept the paper at face value. Every time a scrip dollar changes hands, the receiver sticks on it a 2? stamp, bought from the Merchants' Association. When the back of an Eirma bill has been covered with 50 stamps, it can be redeemed in U. S. coin. Merchants who have bought stamps will be credited with the amount in tax anticipation warrants. Milwaukee and Chicago pondered following Evanston...
...occurred last autumn when, unexpectedly, Studebaker Corp. and White Motor Co. cast their lot together. A newcomer during 1933 will be Continental Motors Corp. Its markets were lost when most manufacturers began to make their own engines. When some directors warned against the company's entering the retail market Continental President William Robert Angell said, "God almighty did not give me this jaw for nothing, gentlemen...
...business of United Cigar Stores Co-of America, and its subsidiary, Whelan Drug Co., by Irving Trust Co., trustee in bankruptcy for both companies. His salary during the first month will be $7,500 plus expenses. Dr. Klein once supervised a Department of 'Commerce survey on retail drug stores...
...revenue would be in the neighborhood of $200,000,000 annually. . . . The committee was informed that brewers could produce a barrel of beer and deliver it for $6.26, exclusive of taxes. . . . The legalization of beer will give employment to 75,000 men in breweries, about 225,000 in its retail distribution...
...Denver men, as are most of the branch office managers. Its research department is famed for Statistician John Walker Barriger III, one of Wall Street's smartest railroad analysts. All of Calvin Bullock's business is wholesale except in Denver where it still deals directly with old retail customers. Of its investment trusts, both fixed and management type, Calvin Bullock has sold more than...