Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program, That is about 70% as many men as there are in all the State and local police and detective forces in the country; it is more than 20 times the peak staff (in bootleg years) of Federal prohibition agents; and it amounts to one employe for every 19 retail outlets in the U.S. But-as OPA was quick to point out -it is only one-third more than the 60,000 Britain has hired to price-control and ration one-third as many people...
...retailers are choked with goods; New York City department-store inventories for April were 77% above last year, while sales showed only a 4% increase. To correct the maldistribution, WPB announced it would soon curtail both inventories and forward buying. Retailers, already jarred by price ceilings, were in a frenzy over a trial balloon "first draft" of the order. A department store that had hoarded too much in one department might be unable to restock in another unless it disgorged its oversupply. Overall cough-up, if that order should go through: 20-35% of current retail stocks...
...price-ceiling jitters: the National Retail Grocers' Association estimated that a third of the U.S.'s 380,000 grocers will be squeezed out; Chicago men's clothing manufacturers laid off 10,000 tailors...
...late George F. Baker donated $5,000,000 to build the School.) Dean Donham's successor is Idaho-born, 46-year-old Donald Kirk David, a graduate of the School (1919) and an old Donham disciple. Donham's first assistant, after 1927 he became a power in retail foods, first with Royal Baking Powder, then as first president of Chase & Sanborn, finally as a director of Standard Brands. Last February he went back to the Business School as associate dean...
...Santos green). Then the boys put on more heat through the South America-conscious State Department, got OPA to okay a blanket coverage of higher freight, insurance and other wartime costs. Meanwhile, retail coffee prices have jumped 20-30% since OPA's first coffee ceiling. But this week...