Word: retail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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French farm prices were also dropping, which left farmers less money to buy gold, and which promised lower retail prices and increased buying power for the franc. Some financiers thought that the announcement of South Africa's gold shipments might also be a factor in the decline. The franc's value in terms of dollars had also risen sharply in the black market. A month ago, $1 had cost 505 francs. Last week, it cost only 395 francs...
...corner candy store. Blum's hustling, bustling proprietor, Fred Levy, 37, wants his customers to think that's just what it is. But the atmosphere is deceiving. Blum's sells more candy (780,000 lbs. last year in its San Francisco store alone) than any other retail store in the world, and has a list of mail-order customers that reads like Who's Who (among them: Eisenhower, Noel Coward, Jim Farley, Lauren Bacall...
...asks the caller to leave his message at the sound of a chime. When the owner returns, a meter tells him how many calls have come in, and a wire recorder repeats the messages (up to 60 minutes of them). The wire can be erased and used over again. Retail price...
...quarter of a million automobiles jammed the streets, night and morning, lurching, braying and banging bumpers. Armies of men & women were late for work and late for supper. Retail business fell off, tempers were strained...
...Meat. All this meant a still bigger drop in the cost of living, which was precisely what the U.S. consumer had been hollering for. Hogs slumped to within 50? of the OPA level. Cattle worth $28.50 a hundredweight a week ago dropped to $24.50. Retail meat prices came down another 2? to 4?, chain stores trimmed egg prices 6?, wholesale soap came down 6%. Whether meat would continue the fast drop was questionable. Thousands of sheep & cattle had already died in the blizzards on the rangelands, though ranchers were desperately bulldozing paths through the snow to get their animals...