Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis in teen-age unemployment has not yet developed. Looking more broadly over the nation, the President also let it be known that he "was particularly pleased by the progress of the economy in the vacation or summer months." There were other statistics on hand to illustrate that progress: retail sales up 8% from a year ago, construction spending...
Aware of the criticism, the Government is making what even its critics admit is consistent, if unspectacular, efforts to improve the data. Retail sales figures, once just totals, now show what kinds of merchandise are selling and where, and figures on personal income have been broken down into 100 metropolitan areas as well as by states. Later this month the biggest figure of all, the gross national product, will get a long-awaited and thorough overhauling to make it more accurate and more timely...
Balanced against the negative factors are the facts that personal income, retail sales and production continue to rise, and that the Government has committed itself to keep them climbing either by increasing federal spending or cutting taxes. Said Budget Director Charles L. Schultze to a congressional committee investigating tax policy last week: "We can't prevent every little wiggle in the economic cycle, but we can prevent a major slide...
...methods for printing intricate designs on Thai silk, imported tailors and pattern makers from Hong Kong, and put 60 local girls to work sewing. Says she: "I designed on the run-in planes, taxis and airports." What she produced was a loose-fitting line of at-home gowns (retail: $70 to $100) and rajah pajama sets in gold and hot pink ($110), as well as simply cut dresses ($70 to $90) based on an Indian village design...
...million on 200 million giveaway road maps, more millions for merchandise handed out free or sold at cut rates with the purchase of gasoline. Texaco dealers last year sold 2,000,000 red fire hats with built-in, transistorized loudspeakers for only $3.98, about one-third of the retail price. Sinclair gives away dinosaur-shaped cakes of soap for children, and Pure Oil dealers offer a free car wash with every eight gallons of gasoline, plus wrist watches, movie cameras and coffee pots at cut rates...