Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specifically exempt from the provisions of the Act are those engaged in such occupations as agriculture, fishing, local service and retail trades. The law applies to most others if they are engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce. Of 11,000,000 workers and 250,000 employers so engaged, the majority are in manufacturing and mining industries. But no occupational rule-of-thumb can settle...
...assassination of Rath; 2) that the State confiscate whatever is payable to Jews by insurance companies for damage done last week; 3) that Jewish owners of damaged premises must repair them at their own cost; 4) that after Jan. 1, 1939 Jews be excluded from "operation of retail shops, mail-order houses and independent exercise of handicrafts. . . . Jewish shops operated in violation of this order will be closed by the police" [and presumably turned over to Aryans]. He planned ultimately to move into ghettos all Jews who can or must tolerate life in Germany. And Jews were also forbidden...
Chairman and president respectively of the world's greatest retail distribution organization, the Brothers Hartford have each spent more than 50 years in the grocery business and can justly claim to know more about it than anybody else. But since they had never before been noted for knowledge of public relations, U. S. Business was dumfounded when the two crusty capitalists not only laid their cards on the table with effective dignity but set something of a precedent by openly announcing that, since they knew nothing much about public relations, they had hired someone who did-Publicist Carl Byoir...
Spouting such claims in a rival blare of oratory is not the only string to the chains' bow. A. & P. pays an average of $30 a week to managers and clerks, compared to the Department of Labor's figure of $22 for all retail stores. In their Public Statement in September the Brothers Hartford declared that passage of the Patman bill would put 1,000,000 men out of work. Meanwhile, with little fanfare, A. & P. agreed to place all its outside printing contracts in union shops. Promptly the A. F. of L. announced that it was against...
Food. Since retail prices have held up fairly well, low farm prices have fostered profits...