Read The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America Online
Authors: Marc Levinson
butcher shops
Butler, James
Butler, William
buying clubs
Byoir, Carl; background of; chain-store tax opposition coordinated by; and consumer movement; and German tourism industry; restraint of trade indictment of; Roosevelt and; in union negotiations
Byrnes, J. J.
Byrnes, William
California; A&P stores in; anti–chain store movement in;
see also specific cities and counties
California Canning Peach Growers
California Chain Stores Association
California Fruit Growers Exchange
California Packing Corporation
Calloway, R. K.
Campbell Soup Company
Canada
Canada Dry
canned goods; fruits and vegetables; manufacturing methods for; milk products; safety concerns and; salmon; shipment of; store-brand
Cannon, Joseph
Capper, Arthur
Carnation Milk
cars,
see
automobiles
Caslow, Winfield
Catchings, Waddill
Celler, Emmanuel
cellophane
Census Bureau, U.S.
Centennial Tea Company
Chain Store Age
Chain Store Research Bureau
chain-store taxes; consumer opposition to; federal; state and local
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Chandler, Alfred
Chase, Stuart
Chase & Sanborn coffee
Chicago; A&P stores in; federation of women’s clubs in; immigrants in; labor unions in; National Consumers Tax Commission headquarters in; Sears central warehouse in; U.S. Court of Appeals in; wholesalers in
China; Japanese invasion of; opening of trade with
Christian Science
Christianson, Theodore
chromolithography
Chrysler Corporation
Cincinnati
Cities Service Company
City of Tokyo (promotional wagon)
Civil War
Clark Equipment Company
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Cleveland (Ohio)
Clews, George
Clews, John E.
Clicquot Club
Cloud Club (New York)
Cochran, John
Coclanis, Peter
coffee; A&P’s dominance of market for; advertising of; brands of; bulk sales of; door-to-door sales of; gifts with purchases of; industrialized processing of; mail-order sales of; price of;
see also
American Coffee Corporation
Coffin, Howard E.
Colgate, Samuel
Colorado
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Columbia University Law School
Columbus (Ohio)
Commerce Department, U.S.; Business Advisory Council
Commercial Enterprise, The
Committee on Public Information
condensed milk
Congress, U.S.; antitrust legislation in; chain-store investigation directed by; chain-store tax bill in; Civil War tariffs enacted by; Democratic control of; New Deal legislation in; postal regulations in; price-cutting legislation in; Robinson-Patman Act in; trademark registration legislation in; veterans’ payments enacted by; World War I Food Administration authorizations in;
see also
House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Connecticut
Connecticut Food Council
Connecticut Piano Dealers’ Association
Consolidated Foods Corporation
consumers; anti–chain store movement and; antitrust cases and; brand names and; chain-store taxes opposed by; daily grocery shopping by; food prices and; food safety for; marketing to (
see also
advertising); New Deal and; spending on food of; supermarkets and; during World War II
Consumers’ Importing Tea Company
Consumers’ Research
Continental Bakery
Coolidge, Calvin
Coral Gables (Florida)
Corbin Sons & Company
Coronet
magazine
Coster, F. Donald
Coughlin, Charles
Council of National Defense, Advisory Commission of
Court of Appeals, U.S.
Cream of Wheat Company
Crenshaw, M. G., & Company
Crosby, Bing
Croxton, Frederick E.
Cuba
Cuba (New York)
Cullen, Michael J.
Culwell, L. S.
Cumberland University
Czechoslovakia; immigrants from
Czech Republic
Dairymen’s League
Dallas (Texas)
Danville (Illinois)
Danville (Kentucky)
Darby, John
Data Processing Financial & General Corporation
Daughters, Charles
Dau’s Blue Book
Davis, John W.
Dawson, Roy
Dayton’s Department Store
Deal (New Jersey)
Del Monte canned fruits and vegetables
Democratic Party; in New Jersey local politics; in New York State; in presidential elections; Robinson-Patman Act supported by; Roosevelt challenged by conservatives in; in Texas; veterans’ bonuses supported by
Detroit
Dexo shortening
Diamond matches
Dies, Martin
Dipman, Carl W.
Dirlam, Joel
discount stores
Doherty, Henry L.
Donovan, William J.
Doremus, R. Ogden
Dorrance, John T.
Doughton, Robert
Douglas, William O.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Duncan, Robert
Du Pont Corporation
Durkee Company
Earle, George
Early, Stephen
Edison, Thomas
Edwards, Corwin
Egner, Henry
Ehrgott, John
Eight O’Clock Coffee
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Elgin Creamery Butter
Elizabeth (New Jersey)
Elizabeth II, Queen of England
Elks Club
El Ryad coffee
Emergency Consumers Tax Council of New Jersey
Emergency Price Control Act (1942)
Engels, Friedrich
English tea merchants
Enlightenment
Eppling, Mary Lee
Erie Railroad
Eureka (California)
Evansville (Indiana)
evaporated milk
Ewing, Caruthers
Fallert, Richard F.
Farley, James A.
Farmer-Labor Party
Federal Radio Commission
Federal Reserve Bank of New York 148
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Trade Commission (FTC); and chain-store tax bill; creation of; investigations of A&P by; Robinson-Patman Act enforced against A&P by;
System of Accounts for Retail Merchants
published by; on wholesale delivery costs
Field, Marshall
Filene’s Department Store
First National Stores
Fisher, John
“5 & 10 Cent” dry-goods chains
Fleischmann’s yeast
Florida; A&P stores in; chain-store tax in;
see also specific cities
Flowers, Montaville
Flurry, Horace L.
Flynn, Edward J.
Food Administration, U.S.
Food Emporium
Food and Grocery Bureau of Southern California
Food and Grocery Chain Stores of America Inc.
Food and Grocery Conference Committee
food merchants;
see also
grocery stores
food safety
Ford, Henry
Ford Motor company
Forestburgh (New York)
Fortune
magazine
Fort Wayne (Indiana)
Fort Worth (Texas)
Forward America
(film)
France
Frazier, Mrs. Kenneth C.
Fredericksburg (Virginia)
Freedom of Opportunity Foundation
frozen foods
fruits; canned; dried; tropical;
see also
produce
Fulda, Carl H.
Furnas, J. C.
Gair, Robert
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Garner, John Nance
Gates, Bill
Gay, Edwin
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
General Foods
General Maximum Price Regulation
General Mills
General Motors
Georgia
Germany; immigrants from; Nazi; in World War I
Gilded Age
Gilman, Anna
Gilman, George Francis; aggressive growth strategy of; birth of; death of; eccentricity of; entry into tea trade of (
see also
Gilman & Company); estate of; family background of; leather business of; marketing by; retirement of
Gilman, Joanna
Gilman, Nathaniel, Sr.
Gilman, Nathaniel, Jr., 14
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Gilman, Smull & Company
Gilman, Winthrop
Gilman & Company
Gilman, Frazier
Gimbel Brothers
Goldberg, Bowen & Company
Goldman, Sylvan
Goldman Brothers Wholesale Fruits and Produce
Gorman, Patrick
Gouverneur (New York)
Grandclément, Catherine
Grandma’s Bread
Grand Rapids (Michigan)
Grand Union Tea Company
Grape-Nuts Flakes
Graybar Building (New York)
Great American Tea Company; advertising of; establishment of; mail-order sales of; marketing of; New York City retail stores of; product diversification of
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P): 269–70; advertising by; anti-chain sentiment against; antitrust cases against; bond offering of; Burger succeeds Hartfords at; Central Division; Central Western Division; chain-store taxes and; combination stores of; consumer movement and; and Cream of Wheat case; decline of; earnings of; Eastern Division; Economy Stores; Ewing as general counsel of; expansion of; founding legends of; government investigations of; headquarters of; labor movement and; management approach of; manufacturing facilities of; marketing initiatives of; market share of; Middle Western Division; National Meat Division; New Deal programs and; New England Division; origins of (
see also
Great American Tea Company); ownership of; paternalism of; premiums offered by; and price discrimination ban; price-setting strategy of; product diversification of; Products Corporation; real estate policy of; reorganization of; research department of; Robinson-Patman Act and; Southern Division; “Statement of Public Policy”; store brands of; supermarkets of; suppliers’ relationships with; vertical integration of; Western Division; during World War II
Great Depression; consumers during; Federal Reserve Board’s role in; government economic recovery programs during,
see
New Deal; independent merchants during; onset of; percentage of family income spent on food during; pretax rate of return of A&P during; public attacks on chain stores during; wages during
Great United States Tea Warehouse
Great Western Tea Company
Green, William
Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn)
grocery stores; amenities offered by; chain (
see also names of specific chains
); closings of; credit sales in; employees of; during Great Depression; hours of; immigrants as owners of; locally owned, laws protecting; NRA codes for; nineteenth-century; number of items stocked by; packaging of goods for; perishable items in; populist support for; pricing in; profit margins of; wholesalers and;
see also
supermarkets
Gruebele, James W.
Guaranty Trust Company
Gulf & Western Corporation
Hall, Helen
Hammond (Louisiana)
Hamtramck (Michigan)
Harding, Warren G.
Harper’s Weekly
Harriman, W. Averell
Harrison, Pat
Hartford, Edward V. (George L.’s and John A.’s brother)
Hartford, George H. (George L.’s and John A.’s father); birth of; branded products introduced by; conversion to Catholicism of; death of; family of; founder legends about; Gilman hires; in leather trail; managerial and financial skills of; marriage of; Orange (New Jersey) home of; partnership agreement of Gilman and; and settlement of Gilman’s estate; political career of; sons come to work for
Hartford, George L.; aggressive expansion strategy; antitrust cases against; birth of; Byoir and; and chain-store taxes; cherished $7-per-share dividend and; childhood of; death of; Economy Stores opened by; education of; finances of; home and family life of; industry associations avoided by; inheritance of; joins family business; and legends of family business; lobbying avoided by; management approach of; manufacturing operations of; marketing by; and New Deal regulations; paternalism of; personality of; premiums offered by; real estate policy of; restructuring initiative of; strategic shift of; successor chosen by; and supermarkets;
Time
magazine interview with; unions opposed by; during World War I
Hartford, Henrietta (Edward’s wife)
Hartford, Huntington (Edward’s son)
Hartford, John A.; aggressive expansion strategy of; antitrust cases against; birth of; Byoir and; and chain-store taxes; corporate board memberships of; consumer groups and; death of; Economy Stores opened by; Ewing appointed general counsel by; finances of; Foundation of; industry associations avoided by; inheritance of; joins family business; and legends of family business; lifestyle of; loan to Elliott Roosevelt from; lobbying avoided by; management approach of; manufacturing operations of; marriages of; and New Deal regulations; paternalism of; personality of; premiums offered by; price-setting strategy of; rebranding by; real estate policy of; restructuring initiative of; strategic shift of; successor chosen by; and supermarkets;
Time
magazine interview with; unions opposed by; during World War I
Hartford, John S. (George H.’s brother)
Hartford, Josephine (Edward’s daughter)
Hartford, Josephine (George L.’s wife)
Hartford, Josephine (née Ludlum; George L.’s and John S.’s mother)
Hartford, Joshua B. (George H.’s father)
Hartford, Maria Josephine (Minnie; George H.’s daughter)
Hartford, Marie Louise (George H.’s daughter)
Hartford, Martha (George H.’s mother)
Hartford, Pauline (née Corwin; John A.’s wife)
Hartford Suspension Company
Hartford Courant
Hartshorn, Maurice
Harvard University; Business School; Law School