Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury, said he, still does not want a sales tax, but if there must be one, it ought to be a general tax on retail sales of both goods and services. He estimated that a 5% levy would yield about $2.5 billion. But he unloosed another stinger: a scheme to license tens of thousands of retailers to enforce the tax and 15,000 tax policemen...
Money, Money. Retail & wholesale trade approximated $190 million between January and August, up 20% over last year. When old currency was called in July 15 for burning, $25 million in new currency (stamped Hawaii and worthless if captured) disappeared in the flood and more was ordered from Washington...
...Wickard urged the repeal of the 110% farm ceiling price-100% is enough. Moreover, he offered to approve an OPA ceiling on livestock prices provided farmers are protected against low prices. The hoped-for result would be to ease the squeeze between Henderson's ceiling on retail meats and Wickard's refusal to fix prices on the animals that packers...
...blue-green and a greyish shell pink. Adrian's office is in blue-green, even the radio and cigaret stand. In the custom room, next to his office, the drapes are hand-woven of capeskin, suede and gold metallic strands, and hang from ceiling to floor. In the retail room the drapes also stretch from ceiling to floor, but here they are of cheap cotton duck...
...goods output continues upward; WPBoss Don Nelson last week reported July output 16% over June to another record. But in many industries output is headed down. Lumber output runs 15% below the 1941-42 peaks; paperboard production teeters 32% below the January high; retail sales are below recent levels and barely equal to last year...