Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...howls against Discounter Gattegno's "American plague" were just as vehement as those hurled at his American counterparts. Sternly calling on manufacturers to boycott his booming business, French retail-trade papers scornfully labeled him "Monsieur 20%." Virtually the entire Paris press, fearful of losing regular accounts, refused his advertising. Thomson-Houston, the big French equivalent of General Electric, refused to sell him its appliances...
...company, is buying heavily into Southwest oil industry, will pay $34 million for Dallas' American Liberty Oil Co. Coming on top of Petrofina's recent purchase of Panhandle Oil Corp. (TIME, June 25), deal will pump American Petrofina's assets up to $90 million, including 500 retail outlets in Texas and Oklahoma...
...than ever before on a shopping list that included 6,700,000 TV sets, 12,500,000 radios, 4,500,000 washing machines, 1,640,000 home dryers. Though sales of durable goods slipped some 5%, consumers bought so much more in soft goods (food, clothes, etc.) that overall retail sales jumped 2% for the year, including 1,102,000,000 tranquilizing pills (six pills for every man, woman and child in the U.S.) for those who worried about paying their bills...
...MEAT PACKERS are pushing for permission to branch into retail meat, grocery business. Swift, Armour and Cudahy have petitioned Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. to revoke consent decree of 1920 prohibiting them from owning retail meat markets and restricting their dealing in 140 products, e.g., fruits, vegetables, fresh milk...
...five of the nation's eight top markets. Specifically, said the trustbusters, NBC threatened last year to withhold its network affiliations, (and guaranteed programming) from Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. stations unless Westinghouse swapped its radio and TV outlets in Philadelphia, the fourth-largest TV market in population and retail sales, for NBC's radio and TV stations in Cleveland (which, said the complaint, was the tenth market), plus...