Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Youth Congress' Emergency Peace Mobilization Conference, scheduled for this week in Chicago, was denounced as Communist-inspired. In Manhattan Joseph Curran, President of the Greater New York Industrial Union Council of the C. I. O., was rebuked by officers of the United Retail & Wholesale Employes of America, a C. I. O. affiliate, for soliciting funds for the Mobilization's support...
...country around Dalton is still Bedspread Land. The roads are hung on both sides with thousands of bedspreads for sale. In city department stores this year some $12,000,000 worth of bedspreads, 75% of them from Dalton, will sell at an average retail price of $5. Last week 1,000 girls (many of them from ex-tufting mountain families) flocked into the 50-odd Dalton spread factories, signing on in preparation for the fall production rush. By mid-September there will be 7,000 of them hard at work at the machines...
...peace to gather the rice and grind it into a rich, tangy meal. Then hunters spread the word that wild rice made good eating with game. Doctors and dietitians prescribed it for dyspeptics and people who were allergic to other cereals. Prices rose (to around $1 per lb., retail, for packaged wild rice). Greedy whites moved into the rice fields of north-central Minnesota, began to push out the Chippewas. Motorboats and rude, unaccustomed hands destroyed the wild plants, breaking nature's cycle of renewal...
...between picture production and release, has long had to anticipate (or rise above) the coming styles. Its designers-led by M. G. M.'s Adrian-have a cachet of their own. Last week Hollywood Agent Mitchell J. (for Joseph) Hamilburg, who sold $1,000,000 worth (retail) of Deanna Durbin frocks to the trade in 1938, was organizing a fashion guild of studio designers to dictate the mode. Main drawbacks to Hollywood as a complete substitute for Paris (it has influenced Paris) were its stagy tastes, its distance from the dress-manufacturing and textile centres. Other bids...
...measure of goods consumption, bank debits include too many other transactions to be reliable. But by the same token they measure general spending better than such partial indexes as retail sales. Bank debits include checks drawn by little businesses as well as big, the checks cashed by small employers to pay their help, the checks with which individuals pay their bills, etc. (Bank debits in 131 trade centres after seasonal adjustment recently declined so severely that it was the major factor which last week carried TIME'S Index of Business Conditions to a new two-year...