Show Retail Sales Show Gain Despite Bad Weather NEW YORK March 14 UP- UP UP Retail trade scored a further moderate moderate moderate mod mod- erate rise this week despite the setback to spring buying occasioned occasioned occasioned occa occa- by the wintry weather Dun Bradstreet Inc reported Friday Dollar volume of retail sales was estimated 6 to 10 per cent above the corresponding 1940 period I compared with a year-to-year year gain of 7 to 12 per cent in the previous week The comparisons ns with a year ago were somewhat distorted because because because be be- cause of the early Easter Eastern in n 1940 |