Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange," said Dr. Jewett, "how you can take a voice to pieces, mess it all up, and still get something you can understand." Dr. Jewett has been careful to keep the cable's development anonymous, to credit many workers with research contributions...
...trenched evening dailies in the field (population 246,593), a morning paper in Vancouver seemed an economic impossibility. After the General had gone, a group of his ex-employes went into a huddle, decided to carry on anyhow with a cooperative paper. Forty strong they combed Vancouver for funds, credit, advertising, circulation. Resulting enterprise was christened the News-Herald. It started life with 10,000 sympathetic but skeptical readers who thought the paper could not last but wanted to help its newsmen stay off Vancouver's breadlines as long as possible...
...about 5% of the price of each item compared to the usual 10% in mail-order houses. He discovered and concentrated on lines with the greatest profit margin: furniture, stoves, tires, men's clothes. And he developed Spiegel's two cardinal policies: 1) sell everything on credit; 2) sell more goods to fewer customers...
...Down cracked the Federal Trade Commission last week with a complaint against virtually the entire U. S. automobile industry for "false and misleading representation." What the Commission objected to was the so-called "6% plan" for instalment buying. The Commission named four finance companies-General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit Co., Universal Credit Corp., Commercial Investment Trust Corp.-in its complaint...
...service in a new realm where intelligence and self-dependence were indispensable." What Dr. Canby did not say is that The Mint, in its general mood and in its unsqueamish record of obscenity, belongs with such contemporary records as Louis-Ferdinand Celine's untranslated La Mort A Credit (Death on the Instalment Plan) and Henry Miller's obsessed story of expatriates in Paris, The Tropic of Cancer. In the Library of Congress the two copies of The Mint are kept in the office of the secretary of the Library, mild, good-natured Martin A. Roberts, who permits them...