Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Toomey, Clark, or the two victims of that same evening's $200 robbery in Thayer could see any connection between the thefts. The milk was valued at $9 retail...
...Retail Bookseller confidently predicted that a new novel, Parris Mitchell of Kings Row, would be a bestseller. "It has everything in it that made its predecessor [Kings Row] sell: horror, sex, madness and depravity-all handled with dignity and restraint...
...Color Line. By repealing a 62-year-old law, New Jersey became the first of the 21 "butter" states to allow margarine manufacturers to color their product yellow for retail sale...
Million-Dollar Blossom. Manhattan's Macy's, pushing a 90th anniversary sale, had a $1,000,000 day for the first time in any spring season (its daily sales have topped a million 37 other times, during the Christmas rush). But retail trade generally, reported Dun & Bradstreet, suffered a post-Easter drop of 3% to 7% from the same period last year...
Would they be? He doubted it. Some textile manufacturers, said he, even plan higher prices for next fall while business is relatively slow at both wholesale and retail levels. "Manufacturers frankly admit in many cases that they are not going to reduce prices until they have to, and that they would rather curtail production if necessary to maintain the present high level of prices. There is little evidence that manufacturers are trying to reduce costs or prices. This is the stuff out of which booms and busts are made...