Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heiress, Bloomfield drygoods merchant, is generally given credit for thinking up the plan. He organized and became president of the Bloomfield Retail Merchants Association. During his regime the Bloomfield Monitor of Feb. 23, 1928 carried a memorable proclamation by the merchants: No more retail credit would be given in Bloomfield after April 1. Any member of the Association caught extending credit would be fined $100. Twenty-two Bloomfield businesses backed the scheme...
...mass of misstatements reflecting on the flour millers of the state which we wish to emphatically controvert. You have been grossly imposed upon. . . . We have kept an accurate weekly record of wheat and wheat products prices for years and keep in close touch with the mill prices to retailers over the state all of the time. When wheat on Aug. 3, 1929, was $1.44 per bushel, Chicago option, Omaha cash was $1.34 to $1.40 per bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour, Omaha in car lots, for that date was $6.50 per barrel. Bran, $27.50 per ton and shorts...
...Mathis is the fourth largest seller in France. Durant will retail it at around $500, hence compete with the American Austin. Testimony to the popularity of torn-thumb cars was the report last week that American Austin Car Co. Inc., with normal capacity of 60,000 a year, had 184,000 unfilled orders on hand June...
...high hopes of the promoters: Clarence S. Lomax, inventor; Charles Edison Poyer, grandnephew of Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Hitchcock Jr., international polo captain. The infant company asserts it has found the long-sought low-temperature distillation process for converting bituminous into a smokeless, slow-burning fuel which will undersell retail anthracite. If the process really works commercially, it may prove to be the tonic so badly needed by the bituminous mines of the Midwest...
...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...