Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...china manufacture, 15% of enamelware and 10% of aluminumware. As premium dispensers bought wholesale and marked up prices only enough to cover costs, thrifty housewives found that they usually got bargains. The war temporarily cut off premiums ; there was no need for them in the seller's market. As the buyer's market has come back, so have premiums. By last week, 8,000 companies were hawking them and the premium business is expected to hit $1 billion this year, including the comparatively small part made up of knickknacks...
...brassy-voiced renderings of 20-year-old Jolsoniana (My Mammy, Sonny Boy, April Showers) were issued by Decca, and turned out to be the biggest selling album of all time (800,000). His single record of the Anniversary Song (from The Jolson Story) was a best-seller in the U.S. and is currently No. 1 on England's hit parade. His guest appearances on the Bing Crosby show shot it to its highest Hooper rating. A patter record he and Bing Crosby made of Alexander's Ragtime Band and The Spaniard That Blighted My Life has sold...
Last week Goulding's background music had leaped to the front of the Hit Parade. Mam'selle jumped from 25th to first place on sheet music best-seller lists in ten weeks. Said Whistler Goulding proudly: "When you whistle you're naked. You can't play covering chords to conceal the fact that you haven't got a good tune...
...flaccid Frank Clair is the hero of a new novel by Janet Miriam Taylor Caldwell, whose previous novels (This Side of Innocence, The Eagles Gather, Dynasty of Death, etc.) have rung up a total sale of almost 2,000,000 copies. This Side of Innocence was the biggest fiction seller of 1946. Consequently, the appearance of her new novel is an event for her admirers-and, for analytical critics, another ripe opportunity to examine the ingredients and treatment wherewith Author Caldwell has made herself one of the richest novelists...
...sales slump came after the industry produced an alltime record, in 1946, of 529,000,000 pairs of shoes, and profits of the twelve leading companies were 47% above 1945 and 100% above 1942. Loaded up with shoes as they are, some manufacturers have finally realized that the seller's market is gone. Last week, Thom McAn Shoe Co. reduced the price of its shoes 30? a pair (about 5%). Retailers said bluntly that manufacturers would have to do far better than that. The shoe now is on the other foot...