Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right, said Solicitor General Archibald Cox, citing one statistic after another. From Miami to Washington in 1963, he said, the average distance between motels that accepted Negroes was 141 miles. The bar against Negroes cuts business for hotels, stores, theaters and restaurants throughout the South. When Negroes demonstrate, Southern retail sales are cut by as much as 50%. When whites resist, as in Little Rock, new plants stop coming in. Race discrimination not only "distorts the flow of commerce," argued Cox, but also "prevents it from flowing freely...
...with their home countries. They issue letters of credit, handle trading in foreign securities, assist tycoons and tourists from abroad, arrange dollar loans for foreign companies and foreign-currency loans for U.S. firms with subsidiaries abroad. Some states, notably New York and California, also permit them to do a "retail" business with small local customers. The foreign banks often make adventuresome loans that U.S. banks turn down and fatten their reserves by accepting U.S. deposits, mostly from immigrants with sentimental ties to the old country. They also have some novel ways of attracting U.S. customers. The Manhattan branch...
...Times printed the entire text in 48 pages of this Monday's newspaper; the Times also joined with Bantam Books to publish a $1 paperback edition, hopes to rush out the first of 500,000 copies by this Wednesday. The Associated Press will publish a hard-cover edition to retail at $1.50, and Doubleday & Co. plans within a month to get out a hardcover edition that will retail for about $4. "To any objective observer, this report will settle the matter," said Hale Boggs. "But anyone who wants to believe there was a plot will probably go on thinking...
...activities. Capitalizing on Britain's rising incomes, Rank's 19 divisions run 18 "Top Rank" bowling alleys, 38 bingo clubs, 29 ballrooms, 15 coin-op laundries, 25 dance studios. The firm has also opened three motor inns and ten highway service centers, runs 184 TV and appliance retail stores and six factories that make radio and TV sets, appliances and electronic equipment...
Atlantic City Retail Merchants Association Atlantic City...