Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plump domestic business. Four years ago, 99% of the fancy foods was imported; today 40% is made in the U.S. Home-grown companies are cashing in in a dozen different ways. Manhattan's gilt-edged Café Chambord has warmed its cash registers by freezing its delicacies for retail sale, offers a full French line, from single portions of sauce Périgourdine ($1.25) and pompano Véronique ($4.50), to complete dinners for eight at $100 (sea food au gratin, duck au Grand Marnier, soufflé au chocolat...
...investors have virtually ignored the traditional inflation hedges-oils and metals (see chart), whose assets are in the ground and whose profits can be expected to keep pace with inflation. Instead, they are bidding for manufacturing firms, whose costs in a serious inflation will probably rise faster than retail prices, offering no protection to profits. So heavy is the buying that many blue chips have been priced almost out of the market. More and more investors are turning to low-priced speculative issues as repositories for their money. Such stocks represent only 6% of the value of all issues listed...
...uptrend, said G.M.'s boss, has already begun. Industrial production has recovered from the April low; housing starts, retail sales, Government expenditures and personal income are all moving up (see below). And for the longer term -by 1965-Curtice was even more optimistic. Reasons...
...result, buying power-normally the first casualty in a recession-remained so stable that overall retail sales were hardly affected...
...mated a score or more moneymaking companies with money losers, using the losers' losses as a tax offset against the moneymakers. In so doing, Sonnabend, who learned to wheel and deal as a Boston and Miami real estate operator, has gained control of a hotel, manufacturing and retail empire with 1957 sales of $179 million. Top earners: Hotel Corp. of America with operating revenues of $63 million, Botany Mills with sales of $96 million, Consolidated Retail Stores with sales of $20 million...