Word: discount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury also made the usual weekly offering of $100,000,000 of 91-day discount bills at five hundredths...
Export-Import President Pierson, a 40-year-old California lawyer with a sense of humor and a vast love of travel, was pleased to reveal that he had agreed to discount notes of the Haitian Government for $5,000,000 worth of public works to be handled by J. G. White Engineering Corp., that he was discussing a substantial order of railroad equipment for Brazil, that the door was open to South American nations in general...
...fight the Jewish boycott on German goods, and 2) to stand as the nucleus of a U. S. army to defend the country against Communism. To achieve the first, Bund members are urged to patronize only stores run by Aryans who give members stamps entitling them to a discount relative to the amount they purchase. To achieve the second, Bundsmen have thus far done no more than make impassioned homesick speeches, parade with wooden guns. Sleek Mr. Kuhn, who looks and talks like an embryo Göring, last week failed to lead his organization through its latest crisis...
...School, well versed in English, are now in Shanghai for the sole purpose of being better acquainted with foreigners. Further details regarding interviews etc. will be furnished . . . in the office of the Secretary to the Commander of the Naval Fleet in Shanghai. "Foodstuffs will be sold at 23½% discount. Saki will be free to those who drink to the health of the Emperor, and a quantity not exceeding two liters [slightly more than ½ gallon] can be taken away each day. In the event of Foreigners wishing to employ Japanese Maid Servants, they are requested to make application...
...High scholastic standing is on the whole at a discount in this country," he admitted. Law is the only profession in which intellectual capacity alone is of much importance. "Imagination, originality, a spirit of adventure, stamina, courage,--a man must have all these in addition to brains to be a suc- cessful and useful citizen...