Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in fact, thousands of hardy Americans drove to national forests in the Rocky Mountain States to cut down their own trees, for a nominal $1 fee, and haul them home for their families. In retail stores, shoppers were in an all-out buying mood, sending nationwide sales in the first week of December 20% above the previous week's figure and 7% above last year's at the same time...
Born from the merger of three sleepy sawmill companies, Boise Cascade is now a diversified producer of paper, lumber and building materials, with mills, factories and retail stores in eight Western states. Its sales ($175 million in 1962) will rise above $200 million this year, despite intense competition, erratic prices and the overcapacity of the U.S. lumber industry. Last week, having completed negotiations, it was hoping for the Federal Trade Commission's approval to buy Crown Zellerbach's St. Helena Pulp & Paper Co. in Oregon. It is also looking for new properties in the South, has taken over...
...seems to be getting more playful all the time; indoor games are booming. During the past 15 years, annual retail sales at the leading U.S. game manufacturer, Parker Brothers, Inc., increased about five times-$5,000,000 to $25 million-and the total number of games sold yearly has jumped from 3,000,000 to more than 10 million...
Predictably, retail sales dropped 5% in November's last two weeks as the nation mourned President Kennedy, and there was still the persistent problem of unemployment, which rose in November to 5.9% of the work force. But businessmen could find little cause to complain-and Washington did not seem in the mood to give them...
...When the Retail Clerks Union signed a contract with the Food Fair supermarkets in Florida in 1960, four nonunion workers protested because it included an "agency shop" clause requiring them to pay "service fees" equal to union dues. The dissenters said that this violated the right-to-work law that Florida enacted in 1944. The U.S. Supreme Court last June upheld their argument but left a question open: Is it up to the state courts or to the National Labor Relations Board to interpret and enforce right-to-work laws...