Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economies is OPA's and Agriculture's unwillingness to offend anybody, to upset the arbitrary restrictions and shibboleths of distributors and union drivers-like those forbidding a driver to solicit customers who had not been his before a specified date, and requiring unions to enforce a particular retail price...
Subject of the talks was not hard to guess. Even during Morgenthau's short absence the home-front war against inflation has taken a turn for the worse. In Washington men knew that more than one price ceiling was cracking, that a vicious retail boom is on. Federal Reserve authorities gloomed that unless the Treasury can put its finances in order the U.S. will face a real bust...
This fact has something to do with the behavior of retail sales in the U.S. since the war began. At first prices rose steadily and so did retail sales measured in dollars...
Before a hornet-mad Senate Agricultural Committee he stood by Leon Henderson, who thinks he has found a way to outwit the farm bloc. The way: 1) let farmers sell their loan wheat for what it will fetch in the market; 2) maintain such stringent retail ceilings on flour, for example, that the price of wheat will have to yield. These tricks neatly bypassed the parity-or-bust provisions farm-bloc Senators had carefully woven into the anti-inflation...
...hold down the price of wheat and other farm products remains to be seen. Meanwhile, in the case of another basic commodity-milk-the Government has conceded higher prices to the farmer and chosen a more tortuous course. The course: pay milk distributors a direct subsidy so that retail prices can be kept down. In New York City alone the subsidy already amounts to about $15,000 a day-and it will have to be doubled this month if it is to keep pace with the latest jump in fluid-milk prices. This means that complicated subsidies-and increasing ones...