Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erhard's instincts were molded in the easy atmosphere of Southern Germany's pre-World War I petite bourgeoisie. He was born (1897) in Fiirth, the quiet Franconian town that today is virtually a suburb of spreading Niirnberg. Son of a retail cloth merchant, he assumed from early age that he would follow his father in the family business: "I had no doubt about the adequacy of the firm social order about me." That social order collapsed with World War I. Serving in the artillery, Corporal Erhard was severely wounded during the murderous battle of Ypres. After seven...
...world goes, so goes Cahalys' Infected by the spirit of the large, stark, and controversial buildings springing up everywhere, the Cahaly brothers will soon move their retail grocery story next door, to 47 Mount Auburn St., and there turn it into a "modern superette," about twice as large as their present establishment...
James Farmer last night called for a Christmas shopping boycott on retail stores that practice racial discrimination in employment. Farmer spoke before the Ford Hall Forum in Boston...
...orange groves, practically everything thrives in the skillet-shaped San Fernando Valley. Out of every 100 people who went to Los Angeles in the '50s, 80 settled in the Valley, and today it is growing faster than any major U.S. city. Average family income is $9,300; retail sales last year ran better than $1.6 billion. Even the lackluster San Fernando Valley Times managed to make a little money, and when John Cowles, president of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, put up about $3,000,000 to buy the little daily in 1960, his proud plans sounded perfectly reasonable...
...Keep Up? Some small manufacturers seek to survive and prosper by diversifying. In Detroit, United Platers has begun to retail its own line of chrome-plated auto wheels, and hopes for a free lift on advertising from Buick, which will offer similar wheels (made by United) as optional gear on its '64 models. Other firms are narrowing their lines, with the intent of making fewer products better than anyone else. Beau-tee-Fit Co. of Los Angeles retrenched from manufacturing a full line of brassieres to only top-quality models, lately has begun to specialize in nursing bras. Detroit...