Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, OPA and the National Retail Dry Goods Association have wrangled over price ceilings. Last week OPAdminister Chester Bowles sharply charged Lew Hahn, the Association's general manager, with using "unchecked flimsy evidence . . . in a sorry effort to break down effective control over inflation...
Last week, as retiring Walter Hoving prepared to undertake what he mysteriously described as "an amalgamation of department stores and other retail properties" outside New York, Lord & Taylor announced that plans would go forward for expansion inside the city limits. It will open ten branches in outlying metropolitan districts, a new uptown Fifth Avenue store, close to Rockefeller Center and Best & Co.'s new store. In carrying out this expansion, Dorothy Shaver will have the help of able Van Buren Sims, first vice president. What Dorothy Shaver's uptown store will look like, no outsider knows...
Most Americans seemed to agree with the loud man. In stores from coast to coast, they bought anything that was for sale, in the last splurge of Christmas buying, boosted retail sales to the highest ever...
Already in the bag were 20% raises for Amalgamated's 15,000 glove and neckwear workers, its 15,000 retail salesmen and journeymen tailors, and 25,000 laundry workers. Never, in all the negotiations, had it been necessary to dig up the unfortunate "relic." (Thirty-one-year-old Amalgamated has not had a general strike or lockout since 1921.) But the results were there...
Daisy Kenyan, Elizabeth Janeway's study of a woman's heart skewered by two ardent wooers, went to 20th Century-Fox for $150,000. Said the Retail Bookseller, "Daisy . . . and the men she loves are America...