The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America (62 page)

Steffens, L. D.

Stewart, A. T., & Company

Stewart, Mabel

Stewart, Sheldon

Stiner, J., & Company

Stokely Brothers

Stone, Lucy

Sturges, Bennett & Company

sugar; at independent groceries; price of; store displays of; wartime restrictions on

Sugar Trust

Sullivan & Cromwell

Sultana brand

Sumner, William Graham

Sumners, Hatton

supermarkets; antitrust violations and; chain-store taxes on; discount stores versus; earliest operators of; employees of; first arrival in New York of; Hartford brothers and transition to; high-end; independently owned; in Japan; operating costs of; in post–World War II era; produce sections of; store brands and products in; in urban working-class neighborhoods;
see also names of specific supermarket chains

Supreme, Court, U.S.; chain-store taxes upheld by; New Deal legislation overturned by; price-fixing decisions of

Swift & Company

System of Accounts for Retail Merchants, A
(FTC publication)

System
magazine

Taft, William Howard

Target stores

Taylor, Frederick Winslow

Taylorville (Illinois)

tea
;
A&P’s dominance of market for; advertising of; brands; bulk sales of; duty on; chain stores originating in sale of (
see also specific companies)
; gifts with purchases of; mail-order sales of; price of

Teamsters Union

technological development

Teegarden, H. B.

Temporary National Economic Committee

Tengelmann Group

Tennessee

Tetley Tea

Texarkana (Texas)

Texas; A&P stores in; anti–chain store movement in; antitrust complaint filed in; Mexican grocers in; Pancho Villa in;
see also specific cities and towns

Texas State Network Inc.

Texas Wholesale Grocers’ Association

Thailand

Thea-Nectar

Time
magazine

Toledo (Ohio)

Topeka (Kansas)

trademarks

Treasury Department, U.S.

Trow’s New York City Directory

Truffault, Jules Michel Marie

Truman, Harry S.

Tunison Grocery Company

U.S. vs. New York Great Atlantic & Pacific
(1944)

Uneeda Biscuit

Unfair Trade Practices Act (California, 1935)

Union Pacific Railroad

United Cigar Stores Company

United Grocery Workers Union

United States Economist

United States Steel Corporation

United States Wholesale Grocers’ Association

United Warehouse Workers Union

Universal Market (Princeton, Indiana)

Updike, John

Valhalla (New York)

vegetables; canned;
see also
produce

Vermont

vertical integration

Veterans Bureau, U.S.

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Villa, Pancho

Virginia

Wadsworth, Harry

Wakeman, Abram

Waldorf tissue

Wallace, Henry

Wall Street Journal

Walmart

Walton, Sam

War Against Depression

Ware, Caroline

War of 1812

War Production Board

Warren, Lingan A.

Washington, D.C.; A&P stores in; March of the Little Men in

Washington Post, The

Washington state

Waterville (Maine)

Wellman, Peck & Company

Wells of Discontent
(Daughters)

West Bend (Wisconsin)

Westerfeld, S.

West Virginia Horticultural Society

West Virginia University

White House Milk Company

Whittier (California)

Wiley, Harvey W.

Willard, Frances

Williams, Sheldon W.

Wilson, Frank

Wilson, Terry

Wilson, Woodrow

Winn-Dixie Stores

Wisconsin

Woman’s Day
magazine

Women Investors of American

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Wood, R. E.

Woolworth, F. W., Company

World War I

World War II

Wright, Chester

Wrightson, William G.

Wyoming

Yakima Valley Growers Association

Yale Law School

Young, Nancy Beck

Zimmerman, Max

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The great A&P and the struggle for small business in America / Marc Levinson.

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ISBN 978-0-8090-9543-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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