Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have good reason to anticipate improvement in 1957 in many of the industries which Borg-Warner serves. Sales are on the upcurve in automotive and farm-equipment parts, chemicals, aviation components and oilfield tools." ¶General Shoe Corp. Chairman W. Maxey Jarman: "People are buying freely. Employment is good. Retail business will definitely be up this year. I can see no signs of a recession or depression." ¶ Walgreen Co. President Charles R. Walgreen Jr.: "There are no signs of a recession in the drug industry. We are experiencing the best year in the history of our business-both...
Edmonton's population has doubled since 1947 (to 248,000), retail sales climbed 10% last year, and local boosters counted 13 major building projects started in 1956 alone. Among them: a $6,000,000 federal office building, two new $1,000,000 banks, a $2,000,000 office building for Imperial Oil Ltd., and four other office buildings of six to eleven stories. A record-shattering housing boom thrust new residential suburbs out into the prairies faster than streets and sidewalks could be built to serve them. Power lines, sewers, bus routes are growing, but never quite fast enough...
...indictment was an article in the March 1956 issue of Confidential headed: "The Pill That Ends Unwanted Pregnancy." Though written in the magazine's characteristically pious style ("Beware the Newest Abortion Menace"), the article was a sort of do-it-yourself commentary on a new antileukemia drug (retail price: $4.50 per 100 pills) that ended pregnancy in eleven of 15 women selected by doctors for therapeutic abortions. If convicted, Confidential and its distributor could each be fined...
...Maybe." Victor will slowly add the "approved" recordings to its already bulging list of Toscanini disks. (In 17 years of recording for Victor, Toscanini sold better than any other classical artist in history-22 million record units, $40 million in retail sales.) The tapes his father definitely rejected, says Walter Toscanini, will never be released, although they will be preserved at Riverdale as historical documents. But of the 350 hours of Toscanini tapes to work from, roughly half are in a "maybe" category: papa liked them except for minor flaws. Record buyers may eventually hear some portions of them. "Sometimes...
...industry has been nervously looking for signs of a spring upsurge in sales. Last week the robin appeared. New-car sales for the last week in February, announced Ward's Reports, "shot to the highest level in seven months, heralding the awaited spring market upturn." Ford announced that retail sales of Mercury, Lincoln, Ford and Continental for the first two months of 1957 totaled 293,008, the greatest in its history for the period...