Word: acco
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...evidence that the A & P had time & again sold below cost to beat down rivals in price wars or to gain volume by switching profits from its non-retail subsidiaries to stores that lost money. Moreover, he found that A & P's buying subsidiary, Atlantic Commission Co. (Acco), so dominated the produce market that it not only bought the best produce for A & P but sold what it did not want to A & P's competitors at a profit, thus making sure that their costs would be higher...
...Russian-born Vladimir Jabotinsky. Kinetic, rambunctious, romantic, he is called the Hitler, the Mussolini of young Zionists. Round-faced, bespectacled, he is a poet and international journalist. He founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army, fought in Palestine during the World War, was imprisoned in the fortress of Acco for leading a Jewish defense corps against Arab attackers in Jerusalem in 1920. Viewed now as a firebrand, he is forbidden to return to Palestine...