Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell them? The Navajos had no written language. The Government's experts had developed a scientific jargon which they called Navajo, but the Navajos couldn't understand it. In their own vernacular, the Navajos had no words for such paleface facts as "sheep units," "wholesale," "retail." Navajo translation of "candy": a word meaning "that which is striped...
...Retail Merchants' Association sent a committee to persuade Dr. Ball to promise to go easy on the Authority. It was a stiff kind of pressure for any local editor to resist. Editor Ball drew himself up and said: "I have my own opinions and will stick to them...
...grave. When the combine took over the 122-year-old firm of Colgate & Co. (toothpaste, talcum powder, etc.) in 1928, his familiar green Palmolive Soap became the prima donna of the No. 2 U. S. soapmakers*-Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Today more people the world over wash with Palmolive (retail price: 7? a cake) than with any other toilet-soap. One reason for that is the factory Caleb Johnson built in soap-loving Australia. Chief soap supplier for Down Under, it is now one of the richest cogs in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's worldwide distribution system, a prime reason...
...Retail Consumption, chain store and mail order sales were 12.4% ahead of January 1939, but the slowest months of the year were at hand. Even curtailed production (in autos and textiles for example) will probably run ahead of sales for the first quarter, when manufacturers almost always overproduce against increased spring sales. This year, normal seasonal overproduction may neutralize the recession's job of cleaning out surplus inventories. If so, the slump in production would be prolonged into the second quarter...
Already Salesman Johnson has devised an unconventional automobile sales policy. Instead of telling the public the retail price of his cars, he will let his distributors set their own (range $895 to $1,250). Now seeking (and getting) new distributors, of whom Graham-Paige had a mere 50 last year, he says: "Ve must have more vorkers in the vineyard." Informal, easygoing Salesman Johnson will upset tradition indeed if he makes good as a low-pressure man in a high-pressure industry...