Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Holmes said, 'Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.' Too many individuals, however, want the civilization at a discount...
...discount at drug stores is not correct. The fact is that members are furnished prescription medicine at cost, whatever that may be. It is evident that a drug store could not exist any length of time by selling medicine at a 66⅔% ( discount...
...property. They formed a corporation under the laws of Delaware, issued one share of common (voting) stock to every adult, issued preferred stock in proportion to years of service. They now work for wages. Nevertheless, Amana Society still provides free medical care and burial, gives its members a 10% discount at general stores, a 665% discount at drug stores. Chief Amana products: fine woolen blankets...
...orders because they refused to yield to A. & P.'s economic bludgeoning. In previous hearings the Commission had learned how A. & P. bought Fleischmann's Yeast at 14 ?per lb., whereas little bakers paid as much as 25? how A. & P. had extracted a 4% discount on canned soups and vegetables from Maryland's Colonel Albanus Phillips; how A. & P. got 3% off on sardines from R. J. Peacock Canning Co. in Lubec, Me.; how it got a 3% allowance on canned cherries from an Alton, N. Y. packer. Not only did the Commission suspect discrimination...
...paced the floor of the hearing room for three impatient hours, waiting to lay the legal foundation of a constitutional test, the Federal Trade Commission tried to find out why A. & P. thought there was any difference between asking the old 4% brokerage allowance and insisting on a 4% discount. "Perhaps it's a fine distinction," explained A. & P.'s Charles W. Parr, "but it is an important...