Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Satisfaction. Retail sales in Canada in 1946, helped by a massive Christmas rush, passed the $5 billion mark for the first time in the Dominion's history. The national income was at an alltime high: $9,400,000,000. Canadian exports for the year, primed by nearly $2,000,000,000 worth of loans to foreign countries (much of it for purchases in Canada), hit a record peacetime high : $2,300,000,000. So did imports, at $1,900,000,000. The bulk of the trade was with the U.S. Canada entertained 20,000,000 U.S. tourists who spent...
True Top? To U.S. consumers generally the big news in the butter scandal was that retail prices of butter, and many another staple, were at last going down. Prices of canned citrus fruits fell one-third in some cities. In Florida and Texas, prices of citrus fruits were down 50% to 60% from last year, as a bumper crop was harvested. The glut was so great, and prices so low, that packers and growers slapped a temporary embargo .on shipments, trying to keep prices up in northern markets. Eggs were down generally 3? a dozen; meat and lard dropped...
...industry last week shook like a badly frightened rabbit. There was much to be frightened about. Retail fur prices were being cut generally from 25 to 50%. An auction of 25,000 ranch-raised mink brought prices 30% below those of last December, and only 60% of the pelts were sold. Prices of fox, hardest hit of furs, dropped so much at auctions that fox farmers were holding their pelts off the market...
Nightclub checks at Giro's and Sans Souci often run into three figures, and if the waiter adds a 20 for himself, few complain. Last week a shipload of Rolls-Royce limousines was en route from England to retail at $13,000. All were spoken for-including one for President Alem...
...described by Kendall, it sounded wonderful. It would have a neat aluminum body, would do 60 miles an hour and would retail for only ?100, one-third under Ford or Morris. Best of all, Magician Kendall promised production of 500 a week by 1947. Those who scoffed were told to look at what he had already done...