Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mobile industries had encouraging news about overproduction. Gasoline stocks at refineries had dropped 1,242,000 bbl. to 47,792,000. Crude oil production was down 50,700 bbl. to 2,530,800. Automobile bile dealers recently had under 400,000 cars in stock, only one month's supply. Retail stocks were 23% off compared to June...
...produce are not being bought. . . . It will help somewhat to increase public and private construction. But the principal consuming power is in the people who have work. Unless they buy of the other fellow, he cannot buy of them. If those who have the means would pay all their retail merchandise bills and in addition purchase what they need and can afford, a healthy commerce would quickly be created. . . . No one who has money now can afford to defer settling h's accounts...
These men's States, and Pennsylvania, have experimented with gross sales levies upon producers, wholesale houses and the like. Many a State taxes retail sales on specific commodities to obtain funds for specific purposes, viz, the gasoline tax for road maintenance. The Governors of Georgia and West Virginia did not favor a general retail tax, exemplified by existing law in Kentucky. They talked about taxes on gross sales as a means of obtaining almost the entire revenue of a State...
...probity. The ergot extractors to whom he released substandard crude ergot were trustworthy. All the ergot extract which left the manufacturers was legally pure and obstetrically safe; but practically every extract of vegetable origin quickly deteriorates. Manufacturing druggists now date every bottle of their fluid extracts of ergot; retail druggists may not legally sell such extract after one year's possession; doctors knowingly would...
...series of syndicated daily newspaper articles under the heading: "Calvin Coolidge Says:" (see p. 18). Bullish in the first, he waxed spiritual in the second, then practical in the third wherein he suggested that "a healthy commerce" would be created if all who can would pay their retail bills promptly, buy as much as they...