Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down much out door work, there is a seasonal decrease in employment. But this year's change was more than seasonal. There was little new unemployment, however, outside of manufacturing. In nonmanufacturing jobs, the number of workers was the highest in any January on record. In wholesale and retail trade, employment was a full 140,000 above January...
...possibly as low as 1? a Ib.) and permit them to sell it and newly produced butter to the public at an average price. Thus, if the wholesale price of butter stayed at the present 67? a Ib. and the Government let dealers have the surplus at 1?, the retail price for all butter would be the average-34? a Ib.-plus distribution costs...
...Lawmakers flinch at proposing a cut in the tax on liquor, which was the first internal tax ever imposed by the U.S. Government. Enacted in 1791 (at a minimum of 7? a gallon), the liquor tax caused the Whisky Rebellion of 1794, now accounts for about 45% of the retail cost of liquor...
...groceries has leaped from 81? to $1.07 a Ib.; some Brazilians have gritted their teeth and turned to a hitherto unmentionable beverage called tea. In coffee-exporting Costa Rica. President José Figueres declared roundly: "Our country's No. 1 problem today is our coffee shortage." The local retail price had just climbed to 90? a Ib., and Figueres had tried in vain to buy some low-grade Brazilian or Colombian coffee to help out. In Guatemala, the situation is almost as bad, and last week the government banned further export of lower grades of coffee...
...Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., 53, moved up from the presidency to the long-vacant (since the death of his father in 1943) job of board chairman of Spiegel, Inc., the nation's No. 3 mail-order and retail house. Spiegel, still the chief executive officer, took over the family business in 1932, when sales were only $7,000,000 and the company was losing money, got it back on a profitable basis the following year and by last year had boosted sales to $134 million. Replacing him as president: Robert S. Engelman, 41, who, like Spiegel, graduated from Dartmouth...