Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time for businessmen to reduce prices? It certainly is, said Jay D. Runkle, chairman of the National Retail Dry Goods Association last week. At the National Marketing Conference in St. Louis, Runkle advised: prices should be reduced "item by item, bit by bit, whenever and wherever possible...
Harry S. Truman was adjudged "the most distinguished alumnus of this industry" by the National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers...
...living? Last week Ewan Clague, boss of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, called reporters into his chart-filled conference room to tell them. He had just finished collecting last-minute data, by telegraph, from twelve cities, kept his staff up most of the night assembling it. Said Clague: retail food prices have declined 3 to 4% from their alltime high...
...news for dormitory residents does not end here. Despite recent dips in commodity and retail prices, University financial experts believe that there will be a substantial rise in the general price level by next year, a rise that will bloat maintenance costs and in other ways increase the expense of running the Houses and dormitories. With the College returning to a two-term schedule and summertime rents gone, the men who plan the College's financial future can see no alternative to raising room rents...
...happiest people in the land were the people with market baskets. As they went to the stores this week, retail prices were spotty, but some were down: bread, down 1? a loaf; bacon, down 10? a pound, flour, down 16? to 17? a 25-lb. bag. These were only pennies, but the clink of falling pennies was music in housewives' ears...