Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile sales, new and old, are made on terms. The Big Four finance companies handle an easy 70% of the new-car business. Also in the field are some 500 independents. Most auto dealers are on contracts with the factories; the factories, complained the independents,* could threaten to cancel the contracts unless dealers had their installment paper financed through their affiliated finance companies...
...expect Southern colonels from Harpers Ferry to Eagle Pass to cancel their subscriptions. And if you do it again, I'll have to begin praying over you myself...
...showing-theoretically-that a moving body must contract slightly in the direction of motion, that a moving clock would therefore slow down. Though imperceptible except at speeds approaching light's velocity (186,000 mi. per sec.), these changes would affect a Michelson-Morley apparatus just enough to cancel any possible observation of the ether-drift-by altering the timing mechanism and the measuring rods...
...firmly convinced that as long as . . . [the manufacturers] . . . retain in the form of a contract the power to threaten, the power to cancel the automobile dealer out, just that long will these gentlemen force upon their automobile dealers unreasonable quantities of new cars...
Students who have reserved a room in the college dormitories will be allowed to cancel their reservations without charge in case they later receive an assignment to a House...