Word: retails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moneyed U.S. consumer who performed so nobly in 1958 will buy even more heavily this year. So predict the retailers who sell and the manufacturers who make the goods. At Chicago's annual winter home-furnishing and appliance show last week, 45,000 buyers, salesmen and manufacturers from 11,483 firms started writing orders for the new year and swapping predictions about the future. Consensus: with the economy very definitely on the upbeat, U.S. retail sales in 1959 should post a banner year. Said one Washington discounter, who ordered $1,000,000 worth of goods and reports...
...marketing 200,000 to 400,000 more Ford cars in 1959 than in 1958. Ford's new Galaxie series is accounting for one-third of current sales, and the Ford division will increase its January production schedule of these models 15%. General Motors' Cadillac division reported that retail deliveries of Cadillacs in the first 20 days of December set a record. The Pontiac division has already produced 38% of its entire 1958 model year output (217,282 cars), still has 24,000 dealer orders to fill. Ford and Chevy also reported hefty increases in December retail-truck deliveries...
After one of the slowest starts in years, Christmas retail sales last week finished a surprising 4% ahead of record 1957. In Chicago subzero weather held December sales well below last year almost up to the final week. Then the weather and the customers' sales resistance thawed out together. Vice President J. Chalmers O'Brien of the Loop's 104-year-old Carson Pirie Scott reported that the Monday before Christmas, sales were the highest for any shopping day ever, and "by quite a margin." Near the North Shore, the Old Orchard shopping center said that...
...December retail sales are expected to show 7 % gain over year ago, with greatest rise in TV sets, appliances, furniture...
While most of the indexes showed steep drops, retail sales never