Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germans in Brazil own textile factories, dye works, paint & chemical plants, machine and tractor factories. They run retail establishments, hotels and restaurants up & down the country. The German-owned airline, Syndicato Condor, operates down the Brazilian coast to Buenos Aires, across the Andes to Santiago. It also runs a profitless branch line to Xapury, 2,000 miles up into the Amazonian wilderness. Germany tried to underwrite a huge Brazilian steel industry, but was outmaneuvered by Washington, which last week was waiting for approval from Rio of a $17,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan...
...lucrative Old Gold contest. Since then he has piled up more than a hundred varieties of box tops and wrappers, getting as much as 50? for one item in his stock. Broker Eggleston gets his wares at a heavy discount from churches, orphanages, political clubs, usually peddles them retail from 1? to 7?. Included in his bales at the moment are wrappers from Bit-O-Honey and Mars Milky Way candy, Camay, Oxydol and Ivory Soap, box tops from Wheaties and Kellogg's Corn Flakes...
...delay all shipments of war goods. (Only 25 industries, with total capital of $733,000,000, were classed as non-war.) Meanwhile the price-fixing committee, answerable directly to Wilson, set price limits at the source, on all basic materials. Before the Armistice it was extending its control over retail prices...
Politics excluded (NBC otherwise would have to give equal airtime to disputants), Broadcaster Roosevelt can say what she pleases, may have guest stars if she wishes. Her sponsor is prospering Manhattan Soap Co., whose Sweetheart cakes retail for around 6?, sell mostly in groceries. Sweetheart Soap presumably will pay Mrs. Roosevelt her standard rate: $3,000 per 15-minute broadcast...
...plants are situated in rural areas, but lockermen have their eyes on the big city markets. They say, for example, that housewives can save $100 on the annual meat bill of a family of five by buying a side of beef wholesale at a little better than half the retail price and having a locker plant's butcher cut and freeze it. Apostle of this drive to invade the cities is stumpy, chipper, leather-lunged Alfred Michael Reilly, Baker's Chicago sales engineer, who has peddled ice machinery for 27 years. Weekly he delivers lectures to persuade Midwest...