Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Upsilon. Charlie was whittled out 25 years ago by a Chicago barkeep named Mack (price: $35). He was modeled on a sketch Bergen made of a red headed Chicago newsboy. Bergen was then 16, the gawky, moody second son of a Swedish immigrant named Berggren who had run a retail dairy business in Chicago and a farm near Decatur, Mich...
Although the U.S. had a bigger supply of raw wool than ever before, retail inventories of woolen goods ran low. Civilians hoped for a warm winter. With 10% fewer mill workers than last year, woolen production for the first quarter of 1945 may not exceed 90,000,000 yards, of which 60,000,000 yards are needed to fill Army, UNRRA and other Government orders...
...Department of Commerce deflated the four-year-old notion that U.S. sho pers have been on a four-year buying spree. Estimating retail sales for 1944, the Department predicted that the quantity of goods bought this year would be only 15% greater than in 1939, and 5% less than in 1941. But the Department's report confirmed what every housewife knows: sky-high retail prices make purchases of essentials seem like a mad squandering of money. Thus the dollar volume of retail sales this year are guesstimated at an alltime peak of $67 billion - up 60% over...
More than 1,000 representatives of the 2,500,000 U.S. citizens who fervently be lieve consumers should own and operate their own retail stores and production facilities met last week in Chicago. They were the "cooperatives," celebrating their 100th year with their largest congress, and planning vigorous expansion, in both domestic and export markets, of their $3.2 billion business volume...
...retail markets extravagant buying continued despite uncertainty about jobs. For the week ending Sept. 2, department store sales were 16% greater than a year...