Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earnings to decline." Though consumers in 1958 plan to buy fewer houses, heavy appliances and new cars, the survey noted, they will spend more on used cars, furniture and home modernization. Retail sales for the year are 2% ahead of 1957, with a fat 7% increase in department-store sales to start off March...
...laid off. Yet unemployment, percentagewise, is less than in the North. Texas unemployment is up to 5.7% of the labor force, yet retail sales are running 2% ahead of last year, and the University of Texas' index of business activity is 1% ahead of 1957. Department-store sales are down slightly, mainly because of bad weather. But at Atlanta's hard-selling Rich's department store, sales are even with last year. Businessmen count on their growing market, lower labor costs and the efficient new plants built by migrating Northern industry to carry them through the recession...
...that car? Darling, that's horsepower, not earning power. They won it in a 50? raffle." The most important fact about Joan was how she managed to dress well "on his income." She shopped for her clothes at Manhattan's Ohrbach's, a low-budget department store with branches in Los Angeles and Newark, which has been trying to build up a high-fashion reputation with striking prestige ads (TIME, Sept...
Hard Cell. In Baltimore, Timothy J. McCarthy, soliciting advertising at a sporting-goods store for the Catholic Review, displayed a copy of the paper that contained a warning to advertisers against an impostor salesman named Timothy J. McCarthy, confessed when sentenced to two years that in his own case the paper did not bring results-he had never bothered to read...
Self-Service. In Preston, England, a thief smashed the window of Arthur Boyle's clothing store, took a size 42 raincoat, left all other merchandise untouched, disappeared long before police learned that a shopper had said he wanted a size 42 raincoat, and would the store please put it in the window so he could come by and look it over...