Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Retail sales in the U.S. last year hit the highest dollar mark on record: $63.3 billion, 10% above 1942, 64% above the 1935-39 average. But, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported, on a volume basis the $55.6 billion of retail business done in 1941 still represents the high-water mark. (In 1941 the cost of living was 18.3% below the 1943 average.) Based on what 1935-39 dollars would buy now, last year's retail bonanza was only 23.2% higher than the 1935-39 average...
...Philadelphia, schools developed plans to fill retail-sales jobs on a basis of afternoon work on school days, an eight-hour Saturday stint. Returns to school were up over...
...Bullock Ideal. In its own way, Bullock's has built up as impeccable a name, plus a much bigger volume. Started by two Canadians, John Gillespie Bullock and Percy Glen Winnett, Bullock's rapidly expanded into that burgeoning city's biggest retail business. It now encompasses: 1) "Bullock's Downtown," a 740,000-sq. ft., six-building, quality department store; 2) "Bullock's Wilshire," "Bullock's Westwood" and "Bullock's Palm Beach Springs," which do a damn-the-price clothing business comparable to Magnin...
Crowds in the stores sent retail sales to an alltime dollar peak of $63 billion. In civilian politics there was room to swing many a cat. Strikes, political revolts, administrative squabbles, and all the luxurious bickerings of individuals testified to the lack of war pressure. In fact, war tensions seemed only to have increased the devil-take-the-hindmost attitude. Advertising space was so spangled with waving "E" pennants that it looked like a crowd coming away from a football game...
...this basis, sedan models of the lowest-priced group, Chevrolet, Plymouth and Ford, would retail for around $1,400. The predictions were based...