Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grant Co., with 492 retail stores in 40 states, last week began a fight to the finish against a seven-month-old OPA regulation that has the whole dress business in an uproar. Grant, with eight other large retailers,* is faced with court action for violation of OPA's regulation...
...subsequent strips Spangle, a retail storekeeper, has to bother with special price-ceiling inventories and Government questionnaires (in triplicate...
Ultimate Decision in the election lies with Australia's bewildered, war-harassed, tax-burdened "little man." Despite tremendous price-fixing moves, he has seen the retail-price index rise 13.8% since Japan entered the war, on top of an 11% increase during the first 27 months...
During the bitter-end battle over the withholding tax, many a financial observer nibbled his nails, brooding over the effect of the tax on war-bond sales, retail trade, family budgets. Last week, after three weeks of taxing, the first straws were fluttering in. Nail-nibblers could relax...
...citizens were able to find few pieces of ornamental, cushiony, or heavily upholstered furniture in retail stores. The remaining dealers fumed, shrugged. Manufacturers, not yet Government-restricted on quantity (provided they could find the necessary materials and labor) looked with interest at Britain's six months' experience with standardized furniture. For, as has happened many a time in this war, the British experience may well prove to be the general pattern...