Word: retails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operating at 36.4% of capacity. Steel scrap, which accounts for nearly one-half of new steel, sold for almost $22 a ton in April, was down last week to $13.41. These melancholy facts trouble everyone in the junk business.* In Chicago the junk business is especially troubled, for retail junk shop owners for the last two months have been having trouble with the men who collect and sell them their scrap. About 1,500 junkmen, members of the United Junk Peddlers' Association-a C. I. O. affiliate -struck against the retailers for union recognition and a closed shop. Retailers...
...world's greatest coffee drinking nation, the New Orleans Exchange closed its doors and prices broke the full 1? daily limit on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. By week's end December coffee options were down to 7?per lb. U. S. retail coffee prices remained unchanged, however, because it takes about a month for Brazilian coffee to reach the U. S. and not until that time will U. S. retailers have sold off their current stocks, Whether coffee will ever sell for 3? a cup in the U. S. instead of today's 5? remains...
...below the same week last year and 44 below the May high. Scrap, which is an almost infallible index of future steel operations since more than half of steel production is melted scrap, dropped 25? to $14.75 a ton, compared with $22 in mid-August. Dun & Bradstreet reported that retail trade was still from 4% to 15% above 1936 but by a steadily narrowing margin maintained in some cases by price cutting. Freight car loadings were off to 771,655 cars, 5% less than for the same week of 1936. In Lawrence, Mass., the world's largest factory...
...Royal Drug Co. and Consolidated Drug Trade Products, Inc., in Chicago, and Consolidated Drugs, Ltd. in Canada. All three are the creations and property of the four Hirschfield brothers, James, Nathan, Harold and Irving. In 1916 James at 27 and Nathan at 25 had saved $12,000 from their retail drugstore in the Maxwell Street slum area of Chicago where they were raised, went into the wholesale drug business. Last fiscal year their three companies had combined sales of over $5,000,000. profits of some $250,000. Last week they filed a statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission asking...
...University Extension course, P. A. O'Connell, head of Slattery's in Boston, gave a lecture on the Art of Retail Selling." This was topped off with a fashion show which demonstrated the trends in women's fashions since...