Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When values go up, up, up, And prices go down, down, down, Robert Hall this season Will show you the reason: Low overhead, Low overhead...
...from a single store in an old loft in Waterbury, Conn, to a chain of 75. The stores have no fancy fronts or Hollywood interiors. But they do have men's suits & coats from $19.95 to $38.95 and women's dresses from $2.95 to $10.95. Their low overhead is a fact: they are in the cheapest possible quarters. By slashing markup to the bone, clothing is sold the way supermarkets sell groceries. Customers simply grab what they want from pipe-racks, pay cash and carry their purchases away...
Debit Side. In Houston, Joe Ernest Riley, surrendering to police, explained that he could not go on counterfeiting 50? pieces because there was "too much overhead...
...economic clouds just overhead had parted, but those on Britain's horizon were as threatening as ever. Last week the London Economist had some cogent points to make about taxation and the future of the welfare state...
...Mohammedan legend has it, Jesus was walking in the bazaar with His disciples one day when they came upon the body of a dead dog. "How it stinks!" blurted one disciple. Said another: "Look at the buzzards wheeling overhead." But Jesus looked and said, "How whiter than any pearls are the teeth...