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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1955
Page
5
The piece notes the shift from a barter to a monetary economy and argues government and banks must maintain an adequate money supply in step with economic growth. It cites an increase from 10 billion dollars in 1910 to over one hundred billion by 1955, with prices tripling since 1910 and postwar money supply rising about 3 percent annually.
The Retail Furniture Assn and SRFA operate from temporary spaces while the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn also relocates to the 13th floor of the same building. Executive secretary Joan Tobin aims to return to renovated first floor offices by January. The SRFA plans a training library and design volumes in its new space.
A lively reprint of an 1870 store owner’s instructions to employees. It outlines long hours from 7 A.M. to 8 P.M. with 9 P.M. on Saturdays, strict cleanliness, lamp maintenance, and daily chores. It contrasts with stern morals, tax demands, church attendance, and weekly courting time for men, ending with a shambling sales pitch for Christmas gifts.
New York December 3 report shows Guilford County residents spend about 952 annually to own and operate a medium priced car under AAA data. Fixed costs reach 600 yearly with depreciation 477 and insurance 104 while variable costs for gas oil tires and maintenance total 352 per year.
Coca-Cola introduces six ounce, ten ounce, and new twenty six ounce family bottles to Winston-Salem and Thomasville with plans to roll out in the first half of 1956. The ten ounce has appeared in some Tar Heel cities, while the 26 ounce size is a Southeast first.
The Southern Retail Furniture Association will hold its May 26 to June 2 convention on a cruise from Norfolk Virginia to Havana and Nassau and back. All sessions occur aboard the Queen of Bermuda while en route with one day stops in Havana and Nassau. The group has about 800 member stores in the Carolinas Virginia West Virginia Tennessee Delaware and Georgia.
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