Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good-Sense Planning. Most of the 427-mile superhighway will not be finished until December, and the last 30-mile approach to New York City will not be ready until next year, but already real-estate prices, retail business, industry and construction are booming along the right of way. International Business Machines, Carrier Corp., branches of General Motors, Ford, Allied Chemical and dozens of other industries are digging in on the Thruway route...
During the week, the President visited the convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers. His eye was caught by some shining machines in which hams, chickens and pork chops slowly turning on spits over a fire were being done to a nice, hickory-scented brown. "Brother, I'm just crazy about barbecues. I love 'em," beamed Ike. Manager R. C. Wilson of the D. & W. Manufacturing Co. immediately offered to send Amateur Chef Eisenhower a "Barbecue King" model (capacity of its four electrically powered racks: 20 chickens, 40 to 50 Ibs. of spareribs, eight 14-lb. hams...
Despite a slip in retail sales, which dropped 3% from last year's levels in the first four months, there were plenty of signs around the U.S. last week that the economy was still climbing out of the recession valley. Items: ¶ Industrial production in May climbed two points to 125% of the 1947-49 average for the nation's mines and factories, the first increase in ten months. Steel production edged up to 73% of capacity...
...Mary Pickford appeared at the UT in her first "talkie," Coquette, and the freshly established "Air Colleges" were trying to attract "university men" to their summer courses in sport and stunt flying. The Illinois Retail Clothiers Association predicted that the college student for 1929 would wear a light gray suit, black shoes and a soft collar with rich cream...
...Retail Merchants Bureau of Fulton and South Fulton, Ky. voted to meet for half an hour every Monday morning with a minister in attendance to pray for better business...