Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed that management is not blameless, that only by a change in business policies combined with a change in Government's attitude can industry absorb the unemployed. In this willingness to share the blame, finance and investment executives had a smaller part (55.5%) than commercial and retail...
...forum's misunderstandings were widely shared by U. S. labor and capital last week. Items worrying labor: the retail-price index rose 2½% above November 1939, first time this year it has risen for a second successive month; a rise in textile prices means that clothing prices will follow: wholesale food prices have risen 1.5% in the past week; President Ward Melville of Melville Shoe Co. (Thom McAn shoes) talked last week of higher shoe prices. Items worrying business: White Motor Co. must spend an extra $300,000 this year on a 5?-an-hour increase; Midland Steel...
...American Legion commander, and a woowoo campaigner is Washington's Stephen Fowler Chadwick, 46. Last week Campaigner Chadwick ably carried the ball both for himself and for Wendell Willkie (who mistakenly said "Phil" for "Steve" last month). His opponent: 49-year-old Congressman Monrad C. Wallgren, a retail jeweler, who has Washington's big Scandinavian vote in his pocket...
Main cause of diminution in the volume of British retail trade has been not so much German bombs as the result of British efforts to convert certain industries to war use and to export the largest possible quantity of goods. Dec. i was set as the deadline after which British retailers will be able to get no more silk stockings from British wholesalers. Result: this week every silk-lingerie counter in London was the scene of wild scrambles. Some shops set the limit at one dozen pairs to a customer...
...TIME salutes young and vigorous New Mexico. Wherever its new population comes from, it thrives as a community-its bank deposits, postal receipts, retail sales, gasoline taxes, car purchases, telephone installations, building permits ($2,689,000 last year in Albuquerque alone) are booming...