Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spreading chestnut tree is just a gray tombstone along the walk but modern Brattle Street retains much of the antique flavor that delighted Longfellow almost a century ago. All you have to do is look for it. Up past the bustle of the Post Office and retail shops stands the remains of Tory Row, a group of old houses which haven't changed much since they were confiscated by patriot fathers in the days of the Revolution. Several ageless landmarks lie between Story and Hilliard Streets. just a block from Brattle Square; and of these, Perhaps the most interesting...
...Sigfrid Hauck. When the firm was incorporated in the fall of 1939, a WPA job had folded under him. He now lives in a comfortable new house. Of 16 Flanders booklets, mainly bitterly Anglophobic, he has unloaded some 22,000 copies at prices ranging from 35? to $2 retail. He expects soon to publish titles "by some very prominent and patriotic Americans," says "I am a great admirer of Wheeler, Lindbergh and men of that caliber...
...change: though some New Deal experiments had been killed by Congress, and a few had been invalidated by the courts, this was the first one to be formally renounced. The President made it clear that he had not been responsible for the mistake in the first place. Retail merchants had wanted the date of Thanksgiving set a week ahead to lengthen the shopping season before Christmas; the expected boon to trade had not materialized; the changed date had been an experiment and the experiment had not worked. But at this point, said Mr. Sullivan, "there was encountered an often-ignored...
Part of these advances were already being felt in the retail markets, which is to say the housewives' pocket: the Bureau of Labor's index of retail food prices is up more than 4% since Christmas. Thus OPACS had a political as well as economic reason to take action. Last week it did, but consumers did not feel it. John Kenneth Galbraith, Princeton economics teacher who is Leon Henderson's price chief in OPACS, came down like a ton of brick on the high cost of-pepper...
Since the defense program began to boost national income, installment sales have risen spectacularly. The Commerce Department's March figure for new automobile financing was up 41.6% from 1940. Outstanding credit arising directly from retail installment sales of all kinds was estimated by the Russell Sage Foundation at year's end as $4,036,000,000, up nearly 25% in twelve months to a new alltime high. By last week the figure was even higher and still rising...