Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby oil and powder . . . Babies are already turning to light machine oil, affecting YOUR fall investment plans . . . Expect SOME strikes in the next 30-60-90 days. . . Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, railroads, printing, electric, textiles, building trades, clothing, aircraft, farm equipment, retail business, steel, and white-collar occupations . . . General Eisenhower WILL RUN in '52-if the time is ripe, his wife approves, the stars favor him, the Democrats fold up, and the Republicans give him the nomination...
...operating company of the country's biggest retail food sellers announced that it had a new president. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of New Jersey, whose executives have a passion for anonymity, needed only a three-sentence press release last week to say that Ralph W. Burger had been named to succeed David T. Bofinger, who died last December. To businessmen, 61-year-old Burger was almost completely unknown, and A. & P. did not enlighten them. He had never been listed in Who's Who in America nor in any of the other directories with which...
Spurred by reports of shortages, the price of coffee shot upward last fall. In three months' trading on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, March futures in "Santos S" coffee rose 69% to a record of 50.1? a pound. The retail price of coffee hovered around 80?. For the rise, the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, which represents Latin American growers, had a crisp explanation: "The sudden rise in coffee prices may be explained in just two words-'bad weather...
...market for sale, just locks up those plants, tosses their 15,000 highly skilled employees out in the cold, and sits tight. Can the Government force a sale? ... If G.E.'s production capacity is suddenly cut 50%, won't that create a bulb shortage, with retail prices jumping? . . . What the hell goes on here, anyway...
...Hotel Adolphus showrooms and on the display racks of busy shops along Commerce and Poydras Streets, 859 manufacturers showed off their styles, designed with the splash and color which have made Texas clothes a big-selling favorite of 20,000 retail stores in 3,500 cities and towns all over the U.S. To service these far-flung outlets, Dallas manufacturers have taken to air freight; last year Texas' own Slick Airways flew out 349,000 pounds of Dallas fashions, which have even invaded Manhattan...