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Meanwhile the rest of U. S. Industry, light and heavy, was pouring forth additional data on the end of Depression. Gains were widest in capital goods industries like steel, whose markets contract and expand directly with the business cycle. After a study of 161 corporations, Standard Statistics estimated that earnings...
From smartshops, from bargain basements, from stores great & small, some 5,000 leading merchants of the land assembled in Manhattan last week for the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association. With the Christmas rush behind them, the Easter season dimly distant, the retailers took a full week...
Sherrill, "might also allow the de-velopment of a form of dangerous racketeering in the promotion of consumer co-operatives at the hands of unscrupulous and skillful demagogs." Another "public interest" discussed by the retailers was the rapid rise in installment selling. While total dry goods sales last year were...
The question of the constitutionality of the refund clause of the 1936 revenue act, which requires a manufacturer to prove that he passed the burden of the invalidated A.A.A. processing taxes on the consumer before he can obtain a refund, involves the large sum of $1,000,000,000.
No longer do Midlanders rail against Dow Chemical Co. as they did in 1900, for today Dow is the biggest thing in Mid land. Most of the company's 3,700 employes, including 500 scientists and technicians, live there. The plant stretches over 250 acres, contains more than 300...