Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Claverly were carried-over hell-raisers from another era which Jim remembers: the years of prohibition. Jim Seniors place was up on the Hill between Concord and Huron Avenues, doing a brisk food business near the then-buzzing Harvard Observatory. Old Cronin kept his hands off the local moonshine trade, and Cambridge presented him with its first liquor license when the dry years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch and Irish...
...lean, balding Englishman with a "British Cake and Oil Mills Ltd." tag on his vest pocket takes a sip of coffee and smiles. "Now we've been getting along fine with our trade unions for years. If a man wants to join a union, and it's in his interest to do so, we let him go right ahead. A "Right to Work" law would be absurd in Britain." A Californian manufacturer behind him overhears, turns around, and the pair are soon in eager debate over their coffee cups...
...often phony, are among the fastest spreading evils of U.S. merchandising. Once only fly-by-nighters in dingy back streets offered fake bargains. Today, in trying to keep up with the discount houses, even old established merchants resort to price trickery. The problem is so bad that the Federal Trade Commission last month came out with a nine-point "Guides Against Deceptive Pricing," aimed at getting merchants and manufacturers to cooperate to force more honesty back into price advertising. Unless something is done, FTC Chairman John Gwynne told Manhattan's Radio and Television Executives Society, retailers may wake...
...expects the retailer to charge, tickets his merchandise or stamps the delivery carton with the inflated price. The retailer can then drastically cut the price, show the customer the price stamped on the original carton as proof of a huge bargain. One lawnmower manufacturer advertised last spring in a trade publication that his power mowers, which he priced in ads at $154.95, could be sold at $74.95-and the retailer would make the usual profit. A watchmaker preticketed a lady's wristwatch at $200, a Detroit store sold the watch for $17.00. A blanket manufacturer offered retailers $24.95-list...
...ADMEN (Simon & Schuster; $4] is a sadly unsatiric novel by Satirist Shepherd Mead, onetime vice president of Benton & Bowles, who was wackily horrifying about the pitchman's trade in The Big Ball of Wax. This time the author does not try for laughs, instead achieves a notable first: a novel whose characters will have to be deepened before they are translated to the screen...