Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extended Germany's retail sales tax to all merchants. Those with an annual turnover less than 5,000 marks ($1,191) have been exempt...
...since the Civil War has the U. S. had a general sales tax. Last September Pennsylvania's Senator Reed proposed a .5% tax on all retail sales, calculated it would bring the Government two billion dollars a year. President Hoover did not favor it. In March a 2.25% sales tax (estimated revenue: $595,000,000) was presented to the House by the Ways & Means Committee, damned as a measure to rob the poor, defeated...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U.S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted Ben Boswell of TIME, 135 East 42nd St., New York, New York City...
...This survey, made by the Bureau in cooperation with the National Retail Dry Goods Association, covered reports from 521 firms which operated 675 stores and had total sales last year of more than $1,300,000,000, which is estimated to be approximately 25 per cent of the total sales of department and specialty stores in the United States...
...Gray: I suppose you pay retail prices for your boots...