Word: retails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pure Oil Co., oil sources in Illinois have the same advantage as those in Michigan: nearness to the company's biggest retail market. They are also valuable for another reason. Pure Oil's principal field is the Van Field in East Texas, 80% of which it owns. Last year when Texas production seemed excessive the Texas Railroad Commission ordered a reduction in the allowable for the Van Field, compelling Pure Oil to buy 11,000,000 barrels from other producers-twice as much as the year before. As a result Pure Oil's profit...
...proposed to compete with national brands how could it do so without spending a great deal of money in national advertising? One obvious reason, however, for the move on Macy's part was that the more of its own goods Macy's could dispose of-wholesale or retail-the lower its production costs should...
...week Revenue agents had a new experience. Nothing new to them was sending six Harlem Negroes to jail for bootlegging. New, however, was the evidence on which the 'leggers were convicted. Exhibited for the jury was a unique liquor sold wholesale at $7 for a five gallon tin, retail at a nickel a pony. According to the thoroughgoing New York Times, it was colored with orange peel and possessed "an aromatic bouquet with a heavier underlying odor like that of tobacco steeped in water." The Times went on to add that it "created in the drinker a sensation...
...Music Merchants' Convention has been held every year for 36 years, but last week's, which drew 3,000 delegates to the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, was the biggest. It was also the noisiest, for convening were not only retail groups which included the National Association of Music Merchants and the National Retail Musical Instrument Dealers' Association, but also the National Association of Musical Merchandise Wholesalers and a sizable collection of manufacturers, who brought along the biggest agglomeration of musical wares ever assembled. For four days, deals, discussions, and congratulations were drowned by the cacophonous obbligato...
...gets into trouble with other Government bodies such as the Post Office and the Food & Drug Administration. Famed was the case of the mail-order makers of Marmola tablets, a reducing compound. Driven out of business by the Post Office, the Marmola makers went in for national distribution through retail stores. FTC challenged Marmola's advertising but the Supreme Court held that FTC was not set up for the purpose of "preserving the business of one knave from the unfair competition of another." Typical of FTC trivia last week were cease-&-desist orders against: 1) Coolerator Co. of Duluth...