Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illicit liquor freely flows, the Commission remarked upon the Government's apparent inability "to catch the men higher up." Of speakeasies the Commission said: "The number closed each year is large. But the number does not decrease on that account. There is a thoroughly organized business which replaces its retail selling agencies as fast as they are discovered and closed up. . . . Probably a much greater number of those who patronize speakeasies can afford to do so than was true in the case of the saloon. Thus the closing of the saloon has been a gain even if speakeasies abound...
...firm and explicit, 1) Unlimited prescription of liquor by physicians. 2) Fixing the alcoholic content of cider and fruit juices now outside the law until proved "intoxicating in fact." 3) A 60% increase in the number of Dry agents, investigators, et al. 4) Legal access to wholesale and retail houses handling denatured alcohol products to check diversion. 5) Elimination of independent denaturing plants. 6) No extension of the Federal Search & Seizure...
...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...
Making a shambles of conventional U. S. economics, Governor Bryan called for the establishment and operation of banks by the State. He also wanted legislation to put cities and towns into the retail gasoline trade. He would have the Legislature ask Congress to relieve agriculture by means of the equalization fee or the export debenture. Other Bryan demands included a State income tax and the wholesale purchase by the State of road building materials to be resold to contractors at cost. Governor Bryan was determined to give Nebraska a ''business "administration" the like of which the State had not known...