Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survey could not be said to be bullish by themselves: "1) American industry is fully carrying out the construction program forecast by them last December when the Conference met; 2) A manifest adjustment of production of goods to current consumption; 3) Continued cautious, prudent merchandising policies in retail distribution; 4) The evidence on our foreign trade problems of trade disturbances in other countries...
President Hoover was last week told about Cordials & Beverages, the green-&-orange liquor store at No. 201 E. 44th St., Manhattan, which has (been doing a thriving, open retail business in intoxicants for the past two months (TIME, Feb. 10 et seq.). One Eaton Lehcirt, undergraduate "Prohibitionist," of Columbia University, wrote him a rowdy, distraught letter in which he detailed a personal visit to Cordials & Beverages, and the purchase for $1.50 of a bottle of Spanish Port which "I would swear was as good as any I have bought in Spain." Threateningly, discourteously, Lehcirt asked President Hoover, in effect, what...
Gillette-Schulte. All manufacturers like to have retail salesmen push their products. Last week Schulte Retail Stores Corp. sued Gillette Safety Razor Co. for $125,000, due as a quarterly payment for aiding sales of Gillette blades. Gillette filed a countersuit, maintaining that far from pushing Gillette sales, the Schulte stores were instead endorsing Dunhill razors, in which, claimed Gillette, D. A. Schulte, Inc. was largely interested...
Subscribers unable to obtain desired phonograph records from local dealers can do so by addressing: The Music Editor, TIME, Inc., 205 E. 4-7nd St., N. Y. C. Enclose check or money order to cover regular retail price...
...increase of 69.7%. . . . The people of the United States spent about $1,670,000,000 for tobacco products in 1928, and the expenditure for 1929 is estimated to have exceeded $1,750,000,000. These figures represent over 4% of our total retail expenditures and about 2% of our total money income. The per capita expenditure ... is now running at the rate of about 4? per day and the average annual expenditure per family is about...