Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparel manufacturers were accepting no new customers. They were favoring the old ones only with 75% to 80% of last year's orders and talking direly of slow deliveries. Furthermore, spokesmen warned all & sundry that the apparel industry faces a possible 1945 decline of $500,000,000 in retail dollar volume. When Germany is defeated, they gloomed, consumer interest will turn from clothes, which have been relatively plentiful, to goods that will go into production when the war pinch eases...
...took orders as they came, but made no delivery promises. The quality of some of the items spoke sadly for U.S. taste, and proved again that dollars often burn hottest in unfamiliar pockets. Said one plump buyer, clutching a dismal little religious diorama made of shells and priced to retail at $6: "Aren't they awful? But they'll sell." Other bestsellers...
...would haul away any movable items-jeeps, trucks, road-building machinery, etc.-she wants. Canada's Government will have first crack at whatever is left, at appraisers' fixed prices. The rest will be turned over to the Dominion's War Assets Corp., which will retail them to civilians, give the proceeds (after costs...
...merchants agreed that a harried year lay ahead. But they were also sure it would be a year of fat profits. They expected that N.R.D.G.A. members would find enough goods to sell to match 1944's fabulous $6 billion retail sales...
...citizen the cattle ceiling seemed like a sensible move. It was set high enough to give the cattlemen room to turn a profit, yet it still blocked runaway prices. But the cattlemen, unalterably opposed to livestock ceilings of any kind, argued that since the spread between livestock prices and retail beef prices remained unchanged, black markets would continue to flourish, and thus consumers would benefit little from the price control. Likewise the steelmen, who had hoped for more, cried that higher prices were long overdue on other types of steel products...