Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...valid to deduce in formation about people's habits and desires from reading magazine advertisements as it is to deduce them from noting the big billboards over retail establishments in their home neighborhoods...
...from it at black-market prices. Behind it all, charged Trud, was one M. Rabinovich, 43, a textile engineer who had launched his nefarious enterprise 20 years ago by stealing from a Moscow mill employing invalid war veterans. Later, he expanded his operations to whole chains of factories and retail outlets where he had contacts. "Moscow soon became too small for Rabinovich," sneered Trud. He "extended his tentacles" to stores in Kharkov, Kiev and other cities. As Trud told it, he amassed profits exceeding $1,000,000, which he invested in "gold, government bonds and other valuables...
...Norgesic case is still subject to a hearing. Until the hearing, Norgesic is still being sold retail, according to God-dard, but Riker Laboratories, the manufacturer, has been ordered to stop shipping...
...Front Office," comprised of 2,800 registered representatives, or "customers' men," who retail stocks and account for 65% of Merrill Lynch's business. The firm selects one of every 15 sales applicants, trains him for seven months in a program that includes McCarthy, Leness and Thomson as schoolroom lecturers. It pays salesmen a salary that is now at a median of $18,000 but ranges upwards of $200,000 for real stars. To discourage "churning"?the unnecessary turnover of stocks in a customer's account as a way of earning fees?Merrill Lynch, unlike most brokerage houses, does...
...world's green eating olives, and the U.S. buys 75% of them. U.S. importers say that wholesale prices for Manzanillas have already risen 15%-from $34 to $39 per fanega (16 gal.). Queens are 50% more expensive-at $20 to $30 per fanega. But because of back stocks, retail customers will not have to pay more until September...