Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spare time work done in back-street shops or snowbound, lamplit New England farmhouses. To meet stiff League standards, artisans can take lessons from League teachers (50? a lesson). They sell their wares readily to tourists at 20 League stores throughout the State, keep 80% of the retail price. So successful is League financing that imitative movements have sprung up in many States...
...week's end, retail stocks were virtually gone. Then the women started in on silk slips and panties, silk socks for their husbands. In the slip department of Manhattan's mammoth R. H. Macy & Co. a sign went up: "Sorry! One to a customer...
...serious as the labor shortage in the coal industry are shortages in agriculture, retail trades, building. Though Britain has 4,000,000 more acres under cultivation than she did before the war, the Army has called up thousands of farm workers, plans to take 20,000 more after the next harvest. The 30,000 land girls, conscientious objectors, interned aliens and volunteer farm workers do not even fill the gap numerically. With a Government budget of ?350,000,000 a year for emergency construction, the building trades have been calling desperately for some of the 100,000 building workers...
Designed both to curb inflation now and to cushion deflation in the post-war period, the order gave the Federal Reserve Board power to set minimum down payments and maximum repayment periods -for finance companies and retail stores as well as banks, for personal loans as well as for installment sales. Exempted were only business and agricultural loans, time purchases of homes...
...Zurich-born Swiss who is also a New Dealer. He has been in the U.S. about five years, taken out his first papers, once served as ghost writer to the late philanthropic Edward A. Filene, became well known in Washington as economist-lobbyist for the liberal American Retail Federation. Suddenly, at the suggestion of the Swiss Minister (whose wife is Henry Wallace's sister), Gabler was offered a new retainer: the I. G. Chemie. His assignment: to negotiate the sale of Chemie's 90% interest in General Aniline to Americans, thus get Aniline out from under its Nazi...