Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tons of gasoline and other products annually. Standard will do the same for Hawaii by building the islands' first major refinery at a cost of $30 million, including facilities to refine 30,000 bbls. of oil daily, enough to take care of most of Hawaii's retail needs...
...Fred Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, jabbed away, Board Chairman Sewell Avery got a possible new ally. The candidate: Britain's Isaac Wolfson (no kin to Florida's Louis), chairman of Great Universal Stores, Ltd., a giant mail-order firm with 1,000 retail outlets in Britain and Canada...
...after voters failed to abolish their milk-control board, they brought pressure on the legislature for more consumer representatives on the board. In California, Safeway Stores, which preach firm prices for farmers and free competition among bottlers, are leading a campaign to throw out a state law that sets retail prices, thereby guarantee a profit to all bottlers, efficient or not. Even in dairy-rich Pennsylvania, big-city legislators have set out to abolish the state's milk-control commission...
Last week the Senate Agriculture Committee took out after the processors. It found, in a study of ten representative processing plants around the U.S., that the margin between prices paid the farmer and retail prices had increased as much as 27.9% in 3½ years, and a "very substantial portion of the increased spread went into greater profit-taking...
...growing wave of price cutting by department stores and G.E.'s retreat from a one-price policy point up the astonishing growth of discount houses. They now have 85%-90% of major appliance sales in the U.S., according to the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Since 1939, said NRDGA, department-store sales of electrical appliances have fallen from...