Word: retails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pill" is a miraculous tablet that contains as little as one thirty-thousandth of an ounce of chemical. It costs 11? to manufacture; a month's supply now sells for $2.00 retail. It is little more trouble to take on schedule than a daily vitamin. Yet in a mere six years it has changed and liberated the sex and family life of a large and still growing segment of the U.S. population: eventually, it promises to do the same for much of the world...
...Retail sales in particular have suffered from the shift. They rose in February only 1% from February 1966, and from results totaled so far Easter spending this year barely equaled Easter of 1966. Color-television sales are running ahead of last year but at only about 50% of the increase originally expected. With housing starts off sharply, sales of appliances have been predictably slow. Few segments of the economy have been hit as hard as autos. Auto credit is running 55% below the boom year of 1965, and the industry now expects to sell only 3,730,000 cars during...
Rising Confidence. With retail sales a key to revival, the situation may get a little worse before it improves. Sales slowdowns have caused layoffs in such industries as metals, machinery, transportation equipment and textiles, and the average factory work week in February was chopped by 45 minutes from January. In February, also, average real take-home pay for factory workers slipped from $98.81 a year ago to $97.11. But for all that, one bright note was heard last week. After running a new survey of consumer sentiment, Michigan's Dr. George Katona reported an upturn from the November-December...
...months but soon got bogged down in a series of costly patent suits. After a falling out with Nelson, Stover started anew in Denver, began producing "Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies" with his wife Clara. So popular were his hand-dipped chocolates that Stover opened up five retail outlets in little more than a year. Soon he had a nationwide business on his hands...
...nearly half of the 200-million-ballpoint-pen Canadian market within three years. Brash though that seems, it only matches the hustle by which Adler last year sold U.S. buyers 480 million ballpoint pens, almost all of them use-and-discard models priced from 19? to 49? retail. Adler keeps a quarter of his 300 plant employees busy checking the quality of parts coming off automated production lines, personally scrutinizes the daily writing-test samples before each shipment leaves the temperature, dust-and humidity-controlled plant. "People are going to remember you if you're good," says Adler...