Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World-wide was last week's interest in the Depression's wage scale. At Rome, Prime Minister Mussolini, boastful of how all Europe had followed his policy of scaling wages down to meet retail prices, announced that, for Italy, a limit for such cuts had been reached "beyond which the antidote may become a poison" (see p. 19). In London, figures were collected which revealed that 1,500,000 British workers, including some of the most militant unions, had last month accepted deep pay cuts with quiet resignation. And in Washington, despite ominous news from his Department...
...limited to 81,000,000 gal. by the Federal Prohibition Commissioner. United States Industrial Alcohol has a 40,000,000-gal. capacity, but its share of the industry's total production was only about 38%, or 30,000,000 gal. The company makes some products for the retail trade, such as Alcorub, a massage, Alcogas for gasoline engines, Pyro for radiators. It also controls Sterno Corp., heat canners. Its biggest customers are in the automobile and chemical industries, where alcohol and its by-products are used for solvents, lacquers, fertilizers. Industrial Alcohol works hand-in-hand with Air Reduction...
...Doubleday's records show 129 copies reviewed, 465 sold retail, 423 wholesale. Six other publishers used the same plates...
...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) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...
...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) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...