Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attempts to fix prices by general retail and wholesale ceilings were made by every nation in the last war and proved failures because of mounting confusion, shifts in production costs, etc. The alternative-to fix prices of a given commodity or raw material at the source of production and to regulate the subsequent percentage addition for processors and the markup for merchants-retards price rises, avoids stifling production, is easier to police...
Last week the Lend-Leasers-to-Africa made a big point of the acknowledged fact that the shipments now under way or contemplated are only a drop in the bucket compared to total U.S. supplies. But in Manhattan the retail trade was buzzing with known purchases of 150,000 pairs of $4 & $5 men's and women's shoes and rumored purchases of 3,000,000 yards of rayon. In terms of current and threatened civilian shortages in the U.S., such sudden subtractions from the market are not a drop in the bucket-if for no other reason...
Consumer Goods. Most retail shops have closed. Those still functioning, like Moscow's five-story Mostorg department store, have little more than rows of empty counters. Housewives can rarely get pots & pans, chinaware, hairpins, combs, brushes, soap. Men cannot buy razor blades, pens or watches...
When Smith took over, the News was devoid of department store advertising, had less than 5% of the total retail advertising in the market. Now the News boasts a greater linage in the last five years than any other U.S. paper. In the face of warnings that increased circulation rates would mean loss of circulation, Smith boosted the price of the News over a period of six and a half years-from 2? a copy and 40? a month to 5? a copy and $1 a month. Circulation skyrocketed from 68,000 (in 1933) to 266,610 last month...
Died. Samuel Klein, 56, world's biggest and fastest independent retail seller of women's clothing; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. He was founder and sole owner of the fabulous S. Klein store on Manhattan's Union Square, a vast establishment (more than 400,000 square feet of floor space) that grosses some $30,000,000 a year without benefit of sales clerks or advertising. Klein started in business with less than $100, reached a personal income of some $1,000,000 a year by selling dresses in enormous quantities at small profits, with a minimum...