Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wrigley, Beech-Nut, and American Chicle, which together make about 95% of all the gum chewed in the U. S., that clause is no burden. National advertising has built up their consumer demand. But when Tom Huston's salesmen approach a retailer with an unknown brand like Julep the retailer wants a money-back agreement in case the gum does not sell. Tom Huston says that none of his 40,000 retail outlets have ever called on him to make good his money-back agreement, but that in new territory his salesmen cannot sell without...
...board is empowered to prevent any person engaging in any unfair labor practice that burdens or affects commerce or obstructs the free flow of commerce or has led or tends to lead to a labor dispute that might burden or affect commerce or obstruct the free flow of commerce...
...plan, there are one or two things which may have slipped even the nimble brains of the Party, First, will not the purchase of tenement land reduce the taxable area of the municipal government, causing it either to sustain a further loss on the investment or to plaster another burden on the rich and near rich which may impede the further burgeoning of the little buds of recovery which seem to be cropping up in the British Isles? Second, will not the costs of purchase, destruction, and reconstruction force a high rental, higher than slum-dwellers can pay. That this...
...Administration has taken upon itself the burden of proving that fraud was committed. It was not successful in the case of Charles E. Mitchell, who was acquitted by a jury. He took the position that he was following the letter of the law in selling securities and then buying them back, as has been the case with hundreds of thousands of taxpayers...
...undergraduates plagued by the problem of section men. The recent action by the English Department in dismissing several instructors seems to indicate that sweeping changes are in order, which gives rise to the hope of an improvement in personnel of the more popular courses where perhaps the burden of stuffy instruction is felt most heavily...