Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predicted Christmas-tree cutters in the Pacific Northwest, which furnishes a third of the nation's trees. Moreover, wholesale prices will be about half the 1942 wartime peak. Retail tree sellers, as usual, will charge what the traffic will bear...
...prepared to taper off its $1.8 billion a year program for wartime food subsidies. By next June all payments are due to end, including the whopping $534 million to dairy farmers and the modest $7.4 million to prune growers. Government pencil pushers last week figured out just how much retail food prices could rise when subsidies are dropped. Their figures: milk will go up 1.3? a quart; bread 1? a loaf; cheese 4.8? a lb.; pork 4.4? a lb.; prunes 4.2? a lb.; flour...
Santa Gets a Raise. Toys will cost more from now on. The OPA granted toy manufacturers a 15% boost in prices, which will be tacked on retail prices...
...Gimbel's, all these wonders seemed well worth a plunge. The store had placed an order for 50,000 pens (retail value: $625,000). At week's end, 30,000 pens (including 12,000 mail orders) had been sold. By selling the first ball-bearing pen in the U.S., it looked as if Gimbel's had pulled the neatest merchandising trick of the season...
...Higher. Retail sales in U.S. department stores last week were 12% higher than a year ago. Merchants in Manhattan (where sales were up 20%) attributed the buying wave to ex-servicemen purchasing new wardrobes and household goods for their brides...