Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although some 4,000,000 workers in the textile industry, Southern railroads, and service industries, etc. are now eligible for increases, WLB estimates that only about 750,000 may eventually get them. The reason: regional labor boards can hand out raises only if the increases do not boost retail prices or the cost of materials bought by the Federal Government...
Shops & Salons. Smith agreed. With Daily News Secretary-Treasurer William R. Powell hemming & hawing in for a third of the deal, Smith promptly formed his Mission Nurseries & Florists, Inc. He bought out two flower wholesalers on Los Angeles' Wall Street, opened a retail shop nearby. Then he hustled west to Wilshire Boulevard's breezy shopping district to unveil a retail salon (Hollywood for shop). Next he bought 28,000 square feet of greenhouse and opened another retail store in San Gabriel, Calif., added a four-and-a-half-acre nursery plot in the famed San Fernando Valley. Thus...
...months, National Tea Co., sixth largest U.S. retail grocery chain, had squirmed under the critical gaze of one of its new stockholders. The critic: John F. Cuneo, cold-eyed, round-faced owner of The Cuneo Press, Inc., biggest U.S. printers as well as "angel" of Liberty and a string of other magazines...
Competition Helps. John Cuneo is still little more than a name to retail merchants, is little better known to most Chicagoans. He dodges publicity, keeps the lid on any airing of his business affairs...
...news struck among Mexico's retail and mail-order merchants like a hawk among chickens. They have no marketing and merchandising methods to approach the slick, fast moving Sears operation...