Word: markup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silhouettes," will have small wheel bases (108 in.) and six-cylinder, go-h.p., high-compression engines which are expected to run up to 35 miles on a gallon of gas. OPS wholesale prices: $1,310, $1,415 and $1.468. If Willys tacks on the standard dealers' markup, Aero retail price will start at about...
...Roman was a peddler for Flurey's high-priced nickel-and in many cases had actually pushed the price up some himself. There was evidence that Flurey would tell its regular customers that it had no nickel, said Gould, then sell what it had to Roman at a markup. Roman would then go to Flurey's desperate customers, resell the nickel at another markup, and kick back some of the profit to Flug and Corey. Called as a witness, Roman himself clammed up on constitutional grounds. Flug and Corey were nowhere to be found...
...Office of Price Stabilization's order controlling hardware store prices. OPS wants every hardware store in the U.S. to supply a list of its housewares (e.g., pots & pans, cutlery, etc.) by May 30, complete with a classification of each item, where bought, net cost, sales price, percentage markup, etc. DeVore figured that he would have to put in three hours a day after work for three months to fill out all the OPS blanks. Said he: "The hell with...
...order is a slicked-up version of the OPA regulations of World War II. To set a selling price for a can of peas, for example, the grocer looks at his wholesale cost, increases it by a fixed percentage taken from an official OPS markup list. The list covers 60% of the products in the nation's $32 billion annual food bill, including butter, baby foods, breakfast cereal, cocoa, coffee etc. Exempt: milk, cream, fresh meat, bread, liquor and 58 other commodities, all of which are still regulated by the Jan. 26 order, as well as fresh fruit & vegetables...
...exchange, according to Anthony G. Oettinger '51, chairman of the Senior Advisory Committee of P.B.H., is "designed to eliminate losses in book-selling profits due to service charges, or hikes in the prices of used books due to the markup of various middlemen...