Word: discount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Students' Laundry and pressed the latter organization hard, now finds itself in competition with three new student enterprises. College Service and the Student Enterprise are two new competing organizations which offer a variety of services but which depend chiefly on laundry and pressing, while a third group, the Students' Discount Society, will offer considerable but less definitely direct competition...
...newest type of organization, the Student Discount Society, has not yet publicly announced its aims and scope, but it is apparently based upon a mutual organization of merchant members and student members and is aimed at the membership and dividend scheme of the Harvard Cooperative Society. The merchant members will give a 10% discount on purchases made by students who have paid one dollar for a membership card. A certain percentage of the income from the sale of the membership cards is to be used for publicity purposes for the merchants who are members of the Society. However...
...nine percent, and if the huge cash store of R. H. Macy & Company in New York cannot promise better than a six percent advantage over other department stores, is is not very likely that any one merchandising group like that in Harvard Square can offer a flat 10% discount on sales, particularly as these stores have to pay a return to the owner, a condition which the Harvard Cooperative Society does not have...
Professor Sprague will discuss in his course the conditions and policies which influence the demand for credit, its supply, and its cost. The following subjects, among others are to be considered: interest rates, the functioning of the gold standard, the foreign exchanges, central bank discount policies and open market operations, the possibilities of a managed currency, and finally economic stability and price stability in so far as that may be attained through banking action...
...largest consumer of hardwood in the U. S. It requires between 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 ft. annually. With furniture and building in the dumps, a small slice of an order by Fisher will keep an average mill operating for months. Yet the Hardwood Code allows no discount on even the whopping Fisher orders...