Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pyramid. But goods at almost any price grew scarce. MPR-330 had an upside-down effect: it began to squeeze out of the market OPA's favorite price policemen-the big-volume, low-unit-cost chains. By OPA's own admission, women's coats & suits that wholesaled for $6.75 in 1942 now sell for $8.75; $1.37½ rayon dresses are now $2.25, etc. One big Manhattan chain surveyed the fall market last week, found that whereas 108 manufacturers made coats to retail at $7.98 in the spring of 1942, there are none today; 128 made rayon dresses...
Despite some black-market shenanigans, most of the price increases have been perfectly legal under OPA's regulations, because normal profit margins are allow able, and higher fabric and labor costs pyramid from textile weaver to manufacturer to retailer...
...Carroll F. Getchell acting director of the Harvard Athletic Association sees it, the idea, or ideal, would be to build up teams in a sort of pyramid. Start, for example with one company of the NROTC, and it will face the other companies. Then there might be an all NROTC team to play other groups in the V-12, as for example, the pre-Meds. It might even become a part of the House league. Then perhaps an all V-12 outfit to meet similar squads form the College, the Army Specialized Training Unit in Leverett House, and any other...
Under a sun that pounded sweating backs with the force of a copper hammer, many members of this unit wished fervently last week that they'd trained reliable biceps along with educated brain cells. Their mental qualities already measured to the last small pyramid of gray matter, the boys were taken rapidly over a series of Muscle Shoals at Soldiers Field...
Closest Thing Yet. The bigger the U.S. arsenal grew, the more important the Truman Committee became. As the arsenal turned into a modern-day Great Pyramid, most Washington officials still lugged just one stone, and many carried it in the wrong direction...