Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year, the committee has been collecting information and consulting with business organizations, such as the Better Business Bureau and the Retail Board of Trade, Bornstein explained. Now holding a full rating for the first time, the committee is ready to make plans for enlisting stores and restaurants in the program, he added...
Shopping was the prime lure. Import duties and local mark-up boost Cuban retail prices from 30% to 50% over U.S. levels. Many a canny Habanero found that he and his wife could buy a year's wardrobe in Miami and save enough to pay the airplane fare ($34.50 round trip) and vacation expenses. Havana merchants groused, but succeeded only in getting Miami stores to leave the prices out of their advertisements in Cuban newspapers...
Whether it was Wild Bill's fault or not (he won his share of games before he came to Tech), undergrads demanded that his head roll and that athletes once again be bought, retail or wholesale. A month ago, President Robert E. Doherty told protesting students: "Some of you may have come to the wrong school...
...awed voice, the "largest non-fiction-book publishing venture in history." In syndicated (and ineptly cut) form it went to newspapers in the U.S. and 18 foreign countries before publication, is being published in ten countries. In the U.S., over 110,000 copies have been sold to retail dealers before publication, and it is the December Book-of-the-Month Club choice (750,000 members). * It is also the apparently final answer to many of the bitterest controversies of World...
Promptly at 6, at the sound of a bell, retail buyers crowded into the slime-spattered aisles. Booted and aproned wholesalers waved samples in their faces, and shouted sales to clerks in a code gibberish by which they hoped to hide prices from competitors. By 11 a.m., nearly a million pounds of seafood had been sold. In this business-as-usual way, the biggest fish market in the world passed a historic milestone last week: it was 100 years...