Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...becomes "organized"? Gambling, by all accounts, invites organization while abortion, by all accounts, does not. In the upper-world automobile manufacture is characterized by large firms, machine tool production is not; collusive price-fixing occurs in the electrical-machinery industry but not in the distribution of fruits and vegetables; retail-price maintenance can be legally enforced in the branded-liquor industry but not in the market for new cars. The reasons may not be entirely understood but they are amenable to study. The same should not be impossible for illegal gambling, extortion, abortion, and contraband cigarettes...
...signs of the slowdown are increasingly apparent, from Detroit's production cutback and the slowing of business expenditures for plant and equipment to last week's report from Washington that wholesale prices and retail sales both fell in November for the second consecutive month. In view of these events, the President's problem is whether to try for a tax rise that would certainly help out his budget but that might nudge a hesitant economy toward recession...
...country's population growth and the swelling school enrollment. But these factors alone do not explain the phenomenon. Not only are-more people buying books; more people are buying more books. They are stacked in supermarkets, racked in discount houses, packed in drugstores. The market is manic. Retail outlets now number about 120,000, and still they cannot stock the 190,000 titles in hard and soft cover that are currently in print, let alone the 28,000 additional titles that sprout every year...
...share of the average 10.6 lbs. of fish per capita that Americans consume each year. University of Illinois Food Economist William F. Lomasney estimates that the new deal will result in a 10% drop in consumption, which could slice $200 million off the industry's $2 billion yearly retail sales. In heavily Catholic areas such as Boston and Baltimore, the cut could be deeper; when meatless Fridays ended in Canada two months ago, sales in Montreal plunged 35%, have since settled at 25% below the old level...
...From a national standpoint, everyone is purchasing display items a lot earlier and asking for earlier deliveries," reports Merle Hayward, an executive of the Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co., the U.S.'s largest Christmas-and general-display firm, and a 1966 study by the National Retail Merchants comes to the same conclusion. By last week all five major Manhattan department stores had their holiday toylands open for trade, and their Christmas boutiques were stuffed with wrappings, gifts, cards and decorations. Such cities as Portland, Ore., may still wait until the day after Thanksgiving to trim their streets, but Elmsford...