Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...requires that the retail price stay 5.9 cents over the wholesale price. The minimum is designed to stop the price wars which have caused 48 percent of the failures of the retail stations in the state. The action will affect Middlesex, Suffolk Norfolk, and Essex counties...
...tractor, in fire-engine red and cream yellow, was the first 1956 model off the assembly line of the Cockshutt factory at Bellevue, Ohio. Equipped with a pushbutton radio for standard and short-wave broadcasts, a cigarette lighter on the dash, hydraulic controls, the tractor would retail for $4,000. Commenting that "two-thirds to three-quarters of my top soil now is in the Atlantic Ocean, or somewhere between here and there," Farmer Ike asked if the moldboard plow would cut 14 inches deep, was assured that it would go down 16 inches. He was anxious...
Zippo Climbs Back. The horn sold well, and Marx was made a Strauss director. One day the directors discussed whether the company should continue to manufacture and sell in its four retail stores in New York or give up selling. Marx alone urged Strauss to get out of the retail field. Instead of getting rid of the stores, Strauss got rid of Marx...
...Retail price...
...pavilions overflow, and the surplus spills into the streets. Sides of mutton hang along the northern wall of the church of Saint Eustache; mountains of crated cabbages and oranges block the sidewalks for half a mile. Buyers for hotels, restaurants, retail groceries and butcher shops swarm and haggle, crunch over the crushed ice of the fish pavilion to finger white octopuses or boxes of shiny mackerel, delicately press ripe Camemberts and sniff critically at Bries. As dawn breaks, late partygoers pick their way gingerly across the littered gutters to one of the small, famed bistros like...