Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year Cole's Chevy Division will produce nearly 1,500,000 cars, 27% of the U.S. total and more than either West Germany or Britain made in 1958. It will gobble up more steel (4,000,000-plus tons) than Sweden makes. Its sales (retail: $3.5 billion) are double the gross national product of Ireland...
LARGEST MEN'S WEAR retail chain will be formed by merger between Richman Brothers Co. (118 stores in North and Midwest) and Stein's Stores Inc. (90 stores in South and Southeast...
...paternalistic Big Five-American Factors, Ltd., C. Brewer & Co. Ltd., Alexander & Baldwin, Castle & Cooke Ltd., Theo. H. Davies & Co.-hovered over a vast economy worth $309 million (v. a 1958 gross territorial product of $1.4 billion), and by virtue of interlocking directorates and interlocking marriages, controlled wholesale and retail business, agriculture, banks, land, shipping, society-everything...
...looked, Government economists saw almost breathtaking change. Personal income jumped $29 billion over the second quarter of 1958 to an annual rate of $380 billion, a new high. Industrial output rose 22 percentage points over June 1958, to 154% of the 1947-49 averages. As consumers opened their purses, retail trade in the first six months jumped $7.5 billion to a new high of $102.5 billion. In the process, it gave a long-delayed boost to many an industry that earlier watched the parade of recovery go by. TV setmakers, for example, expected 1959 shipments to exceed...
...market analysis, learned that most European groceries sell rice out of bins; thus the European housewife often does not know whether it will cook up as firm, separate kernels or a gluey mess. One U.S. rice processor, Dallas' Comet Rice Mills, is now invading European retail stores with brightly boxed, consumer-size-packaged rice, reports promising sales...