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Word: discount (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dealers generally get their books at 40 per cent below list price, though specialized text books carry only a 25 per cent discount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Seeks Way to Slash Cost of Books | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...Discount. In Hamilton, Ont., the thief who stole Mrs. Frank Gnup's $50 set of golf clubs telephoned the next day and offered to sell everything back at half price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...most Cambridge businessmen aren't especially alarmed. There are a number of factors which seemingly discount the Lever action. And if there is any pronounced economic slump in Cambridge, only small retail merchants, whose sales have been dropping, will admit...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

Also, the International Tours sponsored by the national command and sparked from Cambridge were a conspicuous success. Still to be proved, however, in terms of its value to students, is the purchase card discount system which got off to a slow start last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA On Trial | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

Next week it will be the big companies' turn to watch the gasaterias squirm. Under a new California law, the self-service stations may no longer advertise their "5? a gallon discount" unless their huge signs include, "in letters of equal size," the total price per gallon and brand name' of their gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Out of Gas? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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