Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the specific tax adjustments had not been worked out. it appeared that the drug, chemical and food companies who contributed to Castro would be able to write off $25 million (at retail, not wholesale, prices) of the $53 million ransom as "charitable" deductions. Charitable it certainly was-but of the sort that might becloud the brow of the ordinary U.S. taxpayer, worried as he is by Administration threats to make him show receipts for every dime he hands out for charity...
...metropolitan centers of Washington. Baltimore. Philadelphia. New York and Boston will have crept so near each other that they will be one huge, headachy city. These urban areas already comprise better than 20% of the nation's population, account for almost 30% of U.S. manufacturing, 20% of its retail trade and 27% of the federal income tax take-and make for a horrible, continuing traffic...
...Russians have named seven Americans, one Briton and two Russians as major figures in the espionage ring, which was accused of "wholesale and retail'' trade in Russian engineering and scientific secrets. Top operative, according to Pravda, was the U.S. embassy's Russian-speaking physician. Air Force Captain Alexis Davison, 31, who was "openheartedly received as a true colleague'' by Soviet doctors. It was Davison, said the Russians, who was so preoccupied by the lamppost. The charcoal circle was a signal that information was ready to be picked up at 5-6 Pushkin Street by another...
Moreover, the junta has provided a clean and efficient government. Official corruption and smuggling, which once accounted for 70% of the country's retail trade, have been drastically curtailed. Exports have climbed 37% to a record $55 million, and bank receipts of compulsory savings on the salaries of all wage earners have given the government a substantial supply of working capital. Though one-quarter of the total labor force is unemployed, a new $2.5 billion five-year plan is expected to take up much of the slack...
...Though 76% of the Bay's stock is still British-owned, eight of its 15 directors and most of its top executives are Canadian.) Two years ago, Murray moved the Bay into Eastern Canada's large cities by merging with the ten-store Henry Morgan & Co., Ltd. retail chain. The Bay also has a network of 16 wholesale houses, oil and gas rights on more than 15 million acres in central Canada, lucrative fur auction houses in New York, Montreal and London, and a tidy U.S.. Canadian and British business in a connoisseur's Scotch whisky...