Word: retailers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These workers would switch mostly to Government service such as space exploration, retail and wholesale trade, professional pursuits such as teaching and medicine. Biggest surprise in the report: Communist economists agreed with their non-Marxist colleagues that capitalist countries could make the switch to peacetime production without serious disruption. In the past, Communist theoreticians and propagandists have insisted vehemently that capitalist countries are sabotaging disarmament because their economies could not stand...
...figures were for a time past, but when they came out last week they set off discouraging talk for the first time since the economy started climbing again twelve months ago. Government statisticians reported January dips in industrial production, personal income, retail sales and housing starts. A few pessimists began openly wondering whether the recovery had already run its course. Optimists answered that the worst thing wrong with January was the weather. Most economists blame January's slide on weeks of unrelieved snow in the Midwest, frost in the South, and torrential rains in the West. And for once...
...those sentiments Designer Lilly Daché registered heartfelt female agreement while speaking in Washington at the annual convention of the National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers...
Ever since it went into the retail credit-card business in 1958, New York's Rockefeller-led Chase Manhattan Bank has lost money at it. Last week, tacitly admitting defeat, Chase Manhattan announced that it had arranged to sell off its Chase Manhattan Charge Plan (CMCP) for the value of uncollected customer accounts, now about $9,000,000. The purchaser: New York's newly organized Uni-Serv Corp. Uni-Serv's President Joseph P. Williams, has ideal background for his new job: until 1960 he was a top executive of the solidly profitable, million-member retail charge...
...housebound housewife, trapped in Outer Suburbia without a car and still desperately in need of a bobby pin or a bottle of shampoo, the Shopmobile will soon be rolling to the rescue. Built for the McCrory Corp., which controls a nationwide empire of retail stores including Lerner Stores, Economy Auto Supply and 600 five and tens, this 1962 version of the old country peddler looks like a city bus with show windows, has hip-wide aisles and every available inch of interior wall space festooned with hardware, notions, toilet items, toys. It will also carry a catalogue from which bulkier...