Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old board chairman of Montgomery Ward & Co., was bedded down with a cold last week in his apartment on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. This was the least of his troubles. The biggest was a mile away, at Ward's mammoth mail-order and retail stores along the Chicago River, where the employes were on strike, called out by C.I.O.'s Retail Employes Union.* The union claimed that 4,500 of the 5,500 union-eligible employes had walked out. Nonstriking employes going through picket lines were given the "Chicago cheer" by strikers (see cut). Ward...
...usual, to President Roosevelt to enforce its order. This time, there came no statement from Chairman Avery, as there had a year and a half ago, that Ward's would "respectfully obey" a Presidential order. Now one Ward official asked blandly: "What power has the President over a retail store...
Direct control of the American retail market by means of rationing and price cellings will have to be maintained during the re-conversion period, Seymour E. Harris '20, assistant professor of Economics told 50 people Wednesday night in Lowell House Junior Common Room. The forum was the second in a series on "The Transition to Peace," sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union...
...Boston. But Commissioner Sullivan insisted that he had not banned the book, in fact "had no right to do so." He had merely dropped in at Boston's oldest booksellers, the Old Corner Bookstore (whose head, Richard F. Fuller, is also President of the Boston Board of Retail Book Merchants), and drawn an interested clerk's attention to Strange Fruit's overripe passages. Soon all Boston booksellers received a notice from the Board of Retail Book Merchants asking them to withdraw the book...
Chuck Luckman attacked the problem at the source. He donated $25,000 to the National Association of Retail Druggists to help start the ball rolling on legislation to allow minimum-price-fixing by manufacturers. Result: the Miller-Tydings Fair Trade Act of 1937. He also spent 51 of his first 52 weeks with Pepsodent in traveling around the field persuading jobbers and retailers that Pepsodent really meant its promise of better, safer profit margins. In his first years with the company, gross profit before taxes slumped to $600,000. Last year...