Wholesale Trade Rises 1.8% in March

The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that March 2014 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, were $346.3 billion,…

Those outsized imaginations

Think big? That's so small time. At Milan's furniture showcase, designers go for huge with 5-foot kitchenware and 20-foot lamps to fill rooms and fulfill fantasy. By Janet Eastman, Times Staff Writer Huge is big…