Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pete Zikarian, former soda-jerk but now a haberdasher who, unlike another wellknown ex-member of the trade, is making a tidy go at it, likes to take business sitting down for a change. And when he stretches out in the Crimson Men's Shop at 36 Dunster Street he likes to look at Crimson Varsity football players, as well as the cash register...
This time the traders, who have been a little leary of talking back, bluntly said that Truman did not know what he was talking about. On the basis of the Government's own figures, said Richard F. Uhlmann, first vice president of the Chicago Board of Trade, "our total [exports] were only 12% of the crop for the past 17 years." This crop year, the Government plans to export 33% of the crop...
Next day, the designers learned about the California price tags, and changed their minds. Ranging from $15 to $79.95 retail, the California clothes could hardly compete with Paris' high-priced originals. As one observer said happily: "This is not competition. It's merely trade." Members of the couturiers' syndicate promptly changed their attitude; Schiaparelli and Jacques Fath threw cocktail parties. A round of dining and lunching followed, highlighted by a Government-sponsored party at the exclusive Club de Lundi. Buyers from Cairo, Lebanon, Switzerland and Sweden, who had been trying to get just such clothes as California...
...hard business terms, this meant that San Francisco hoped that French designers would develop a new market by designing for San Francisco's mass producers without hurting the regular high-priced Paris trade. In Paris the San Franciscans also hoped to find new supplies of buttons, belts and other hard-to-get accessories...
...auto market became more competitive. So far, K-F has made 113,694 cars and sold them all. But some K-F dealers are running into difficulties because of K-F's prices. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that K-F dealers offer the highest trade-in allowances on used cars, and thus, in effect, cut their K-F prices to stimulate sales. But neither Henry Kaiser nor his smart son Edgar was worried. They hope to turn out another 44,000 cars this year and are spending $3,000,000 to boost engine production. They hope...