Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best rug-cleaning compound for home use we have found. Best on-location cleaner for institutional use.'" Adding that the Digest was preparing a three-page article on Glamorene, Editor Wallace gave the company a friendly warning: "In order that you may take adequate steps to supply retail outlets, we think it is desirable to warn you that this article will create a tremendous, nationwide demand...
...this mean that the law of supply & demand would bring prices down? Livestock prices had already taken some pretty sharp turnbles. The best steers last week were bringing only about 25?-33¾? a Ib. on the hoof v. 29?-37½? a year ago. Retail prices were down, but relatively not 'as much. Spokesmen for two big chains last week predicted further drops. Said one: "There will be huge quantities of cattle coming to market within the next month or so, and we fully expect prices to go down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates...
...executives have already learned, to their great sorrow, there is no room left at the top of Montgomery Ward & Co. for anyone except highhanded Chairman Sewell Avery, 78. Last week two more Ward vice presidents resigned. They were Roy L. Gebert, top boss of Ward's 605 retail stores, and Herbert Riegelman, the third chief of the Manhattan office to leave since 1950. Said Gebert, a 25-year veteran whom Avery promoted only last September: "Everybody has differences with Mr. Avery . . . No man could continue on the job and keep his self-respect...
...public schools and New York University, spending most of his time bicycle racing ("I loved the competition-I like to be better than anyone else-and I liked the glamour and those sweaters we wore"). After college, Roth got a job with a ladies' hat-and-bag retail chain, and in a few years was vice president in charge of the chain's West Coast territory. By 1946, he was making better than $30,000 a year...
...ranges all the way from 130 lbs. a year per capita in Australia down to six in Siam. In most places where consumption is low, it is because the price is high. In Spain, for instance, when raw sugar was selling for 4.2? a lb., refined sugar cost 29? retail (v. a U.S. price of 9.5?). Asks Lamborn: "Is it any wonder that Spain's per capita consumption of sugar continues low-a mere...