Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will no longer be able to blame the state's ills on lethargic Republican majorities in Trenton. Its first, most ticklish task will be to find broadbased sources of revenue to finance the state's accumulated needs. New Jersey is almost unique in levying neither income nor retail sales taxes. One or the other, Hughes said throughout his campaign, will be the price of progress...
Winning Footholds. To keep up with its growing business, Household is adding another 70 offices to its present 1,4.17 offices in 48 states and all ten Canadian provinces. Parrying the invasion of consumer finance by appliance makers and hard-goods retailers, the company is also winning footholds in their fields. In the past four years it has bought up two retail subsidiaries that sell hardware, paint and kitchen equipment through 978 franchised and 72 company-owned stores. Last week Household moved into merchandising on a major scale. It arranged a stock-swap deal to acquire City Products Corp...
Morton D. May is a knowledgeable and enthusiastic collector of expressionist, impressionist, abstract and primitive art. He is also president and chief executive of the St. Louis-based May Co., the third largest U.S. retail chain (64 stores). Reasoning that what appeals to him might also interest his customers, May arranges frequent art exhibits in his stores, even gathered a collection of African, New Guinean and Mediterranean primitive art to be sold there. The collection, priced from $3 to $6,000, went quickly. The sale proved once more that May, 51, has been right in doggedly upgrading what he calls...
...price the book is being either bought or sold at. A schedule of our policy is available for our customers at the buy-back counter. Quoting from the schedule dated April 1, 1963 for required and recommended titles, our policy is as follows: Buy Sell Excellent Condition 50% of retail 70% of retail Good Condition 40% of retail 60% of retail Fair Condition 30% of retail 50% of retail...
...almost nothing to argue about. Both agreed that New Jersey's most pressing problem, a chronic shortage of revenue, could be solved only by new taxes. (New Jersey and Nebraska are the only two states in the Union that do not levy statewide taxes on income or retail sales.) Nor did the candidates electrify the populace with pleas for purer water, cleaner air, faster transit facilities...