Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to these mustard casualties it seems to me that we must expect and prepare for another type of burn. Today there is more than one indication that thermit and white phosphorous are going to be dumped on rear area installations in appalling quantities. But even if we discount this rather gruesome possibility, we cannot escape the gasoline motor. Our tanks, our trucks, our reconnaissance and combat cars . . . will present a continuing fire and explosion hazard. And as they go up under enemy fire and enemy bombing, I rather suspect that you will find more first, second and third degree...
...shipments whose tariff was at least 30? per 100 lb., the Eastern roads had offered free pick-up & delivery. They also offered shippers who handled their own pick-up or delivery a 5?-per-100 lb. discount. "Rebate!" screamed truckmen. After a month's cogitation, the I. C. C. decided in favor of the railroads, except for the rebate clause. When truckmen still yowled, this permission also was suspended...
...Commission went out of its way to explain with regard to the Kraft charge that "no allegation is made . . . of bad faith or any subterfuge or secrecy on the part of the respondent in connection with its price policy." Open to all Kraft customers is a series of discounts from list prices varying with quantity purchased and method of delivery. On Kraft's loaf cheese a grocer gets 1? per lb. off if he buys in lots of from 30 lb. to 149 lb., another 1? for lots of from...
...trust laws prevent manufacturers from fixing the retail price of their product, competition has forced the retail margin of profit down to a hairline on the popular brands of cigarets. At two-for-a-quarter the Big Three retail for $6.25 a 1,000. Retailer's profit, allowing discount, is less than i^ per package. Philip Morris, which sold 3,800 million cigarets last year, has generally been able to maintain a retail price of 15? straight, or $7.50 per 1,000. Wholesaling at $6.85 per 1,000, Philip Morrises make the retailer well over 1? per package...
...Therefore, while it is true that in many directions democracy is selling at a heavy discount, nevertheless, I am one of those who believe that the men who rule the destinies of Europe will go very slowly in dragging their unwilling peoples into a major conflict...