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The major part of January's trimming-$300 million-took place in retail inventories, while the factory inventory reduction of $100 million was smaller than the rate of previous months. While factory inventories have been declining, retail stocks have tended to remain high. This led economists to fear that...
The setting, by Donald Oenslager, also leaves something to be desired. It is easy to see where Freud found the psychosexual basis for his theories; a volume in his bookcase startlingly resembles my copy of Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. And the shelves also reveal that...
Even though Britain's banks were ready to take in farthings at four to the penny, only some 500,000 of the 750 million issued since 1860 crossed their counters. Where were all the others? Many are lost or lying forgotten in toy cupboards. Some are on kitchen shelves...
Business Collapse? Marks & Spencer's vendetta against paper work started one Saturday early in 1957, when Sir Simon came across two salesgirls carefully filling out long inventory-replacement cards while customers fumed for service. "What are these cards for?" he asked. The girls did not know. Sir Simon found...
For parents pouring through the festooned toylands of the U.S. last week-and caching away their finds on high closet shelves-the shopping had seldom been easier on the budget, or the variety of toys greater. Toys were bigger, more complex, better made and, believe it or not they were...