Word: retails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jerry Ohrbach himself is your host for lunch, and he's going to tell you about "retail accounting as done for the masses." 2:15 is set aside for Mayor La Guardia, 4:00 for John R. Powers and his Model Agency...
There are 25,000 hardware stores in the U. S. Many are musty and disordered, and because hardware has a masculine tradition, most of them are scornfully undecorated. Yet the National Retail Hardware Association, which has 14.000 members, figures that 80% of all hardware is bought by women...
...Hammond, Ind., Max M. Nowak, after 35 years building up the retail feed business founded by his father, last year sold $1,500,000 worth of livestock feed. To do so, Max Nowak had to spend $7,008 in 1937 for clerical help, auditors and attorneys to make out 1,100 tax reports, to pay $20,000 in taxes to 28 States and the Federal Government. Said he last week as he sold out to Vitality Mills, Inc.: "It is not merely the amount of tax I have to pay. It's also the annoyance of having to report...
...biggest wholesalers is Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. of Chicago. Its president, Charles John Whipple, has always been distressed by the confused conservatism of hardware retailing. In the last few years he has persuaded 300 of his customers to let him remodel their stores, put their goods out where the customers could see them, make shelves and counters a little more presentable. Last week Mr. Whipple's ideas about retailing culminated in a full-sized, completely outfitted hardware store, set up to the astonishment of the Illinois Retail Hardware Association convention in a display room of Chicago's Hotel...
...bureau, the Treasury Department, was mightily annoyed to discover that the 14 companies seeking its $2,800,000 tire & tube contracts offered practically identical bids. Threatening to investigate the possibility of collusion,* the Treasury gave a $1,000,000 contract to Sears, Roebuck, which had not bid but whose retail prices were lower even though it bought its tires wholesale from one of the original bidders (TIME...