Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Windsor, Conn. (pop. 6,100) a real-estate agent averaged a half dozen inquiries a week from men looking for good locations to start variety stores, food markets and other types of retail establishments...
...offered for sale to U.S. consumers; three-quarters of it will be combat ordnance. Of the $15 billion merchantable goods, about one-half will be sold where it stands, across the oceans. The remainder suitable for the home market amounts to less than two months' normal retail sales -which should terrify...
...RETAIL TRADE...
...warning against the unhealthy boom in the low-priced "cat & dog" stocks (TIME, March 15, 1943). Last week, the "blue chips" led the parade of some 245 stocks onto new high ground. A.T. & T. hit a three-year peak, while Chrysler, Westinghouse, General Motors, Du Pont and many a retail-store stock reached new highs for 1944. And the tone had changed. Grumblers had long complained that every slip of the market meant that U.S. investors have no faith in the peace. But now, day after day, "peace" stocks charged ahead, while "war" stocks lagged...
...Full name: United Mail Order, Warehouse & Retail Employes Union. Ward's is currently suing the union's publication, Spotlight, for $1,000,000, alleging some 350 libelous stories. Month ago, Ward's $1,000,000 libel suit against McGraw-Hill for a Business Week article stating that Ward's had given a federal conciliator the "runaround" was dismissed by Chicago's Federal Judge John P. Barnes...