Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formulating the issues on which Nominees Thomas & Maurer will campaign. A bitter struggle resulted in what Colyumist Heywood Broun, defeated Socialist candidate for Congress and New York City alderman, wryly called his "first political victory." The convention voted (80-to-71) for repeal of the 18th Amendment and Government sale of liquor. Other plans: U. S. recognition of Soviet Russia, participation in the League of Nations, ten billion dollars worth of Federal unemployment relief and public works, cancellation of War debts, increased inheritance, personal and corporation income taxes, a two-year moratorium on foreclosures and tax sales of homes...
...Frederick, Md., at a sheriff's sale to satisfy a rent judgment against her, Mrs. Thomas Hargrave bid 5? for each lot of her household possessions and her automobile. For her carpet she bid 2?. Neighbors refrained from bidding. The sheriff realized...
...Last year was an extremely difficult one for department and specialty stores, owing chiefly to the falling off in total sales and in the size of the average sale brought about largely by the decline in prices. Stores were able to make small reductions in the cost of handling the average transaction, but the smaller sales volume resulted in percentages of operating expenses to sales which were considerably higher than those for any other year covered by the Harvard studies. These higher rates of expense were accompanied by rates of gross margin slightly smaller than those achieved...
...report, the Harvard Bureau gives for the first time typical figures for margin, expenses, and profit per average gross sales transaction. These figures show clearly that stores last year reduced the cost of handling the average transaction. This resulted in part from an increase in the average number of transactions handled per employee. The slightly lower percentages of gross margin on the smaller average sale, however, did not yield sufficient margin to cover even the reduced expenses...
...department stores with sales of $2,000,000 or more the average gross sale last year was $2.30. For department stores with sales of from $500,000 to $2,000,000 the corresponding figure was $1.90, and for department stores with sales less than $500,000, $1.95. In large specialty stores the average gross sale...