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Free Spending Shoppers Boost Retail Profits in 1965 Quarter
US consumer spending drove profits across sectors in the second quarter of 1965 with chains like Sears Roebuck and May Department Stores posting gains. Food producers also rose with companies such as Campbell Soup and National Biscuit reporting higher earnings while a few retailers including Federated and Safeway faced slimmer results.
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New York
Sears, Roebuck
May Department Stores
Federated Department Stores
E. J. Korvette
Grand Union
Safe‘way
National Biscuit
Campbell Soup
Fairmont Foods
Chas. Pfizer & Co
John
Parke, Davis
Abbott Laboratories
McKesson & Robbins
and Miles Laboratories
Scott Paper
Union Bay-Camp
Champion Papers
United States Plywood
Container Corp. of America
Masonite