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Forty years ago in the Idaho hills Donald Kirk David's Dad handed out some advice: "Take all the time you want until you're 30, to learn about what you are going to do from the time you are 30 to 50, so you can do what you want...
Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission was quietly gathering material on another form of price-fixing. Prominent in the commission's reports to Congress are the various "fair trade" laws passed by the states to protect small businessmen from undercutting by their larger competitors. New York last week provided a...
And that was probably the most wide-awake the tea business has ever been. The British, who have dominated it since tea became their national beverage in the 18th Century, have always conducted the business in a gentlemanly, conservative manner, as unchanging as the ritual of tea drinking.* But last...
First Ripple. Standard Brands raised wholesale prices 12? a lb. Then Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., which sells about 25% of all U.S. tea, quickly followed suit. A. & P., which had upped its retail prices 5? a lb. last month, prepared further hikes.
To textile manufacturers Shapiro said: "If you'll help me sell my 15? patterns they'll help you sell goods." So textile salesmen plugged Simplicity patterns. Sales were moderately brisk when the 1929 crash came. To Simplicity, that was a stroke of luck. Women who had never made...