Word: discount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offering of nine-month discount bills last week the Treasury had to pay about 0.7% interest, as against about 0.5% only the week before. In 1935 the Treasury borrowed money for as little...
...Brunswick-Balke-Collender King Pins, changed after each team bowls. Bowling pins are turned from kiln-dried maple, cut from the ten feet nearest the base of old maple trees. They cost $11.85 a set of ten, sell-like the A. B. C.'s 28 alleys-at a discount when the tournament is over...
...life at the theatre, it has never been our experience to find ourselves "let down" by any Theatre Guild performance. "Pride and Prejudice" is no exception. It is bound to please, if you take care to discount in advance the wit of an earlier day and charge it up to atmosphere...
...platitude of the game's being over only when the final whistle blows will stand longer than any mellow undergraduate who holds his arms in a circle over his head for the visitors' score. The tie game with Princeton, and the record against the Navy discount any need for laws of averages or "under-dog psychology." "Truly," to quote a sports writer, "the astute Harlow has brought this team along a cross-country mile since it took those early shellackings...
Last week the I. C. C. finally made up its mind. On shipments whose tariff is a minimum 45? per 100 lb. all railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio may provide free store-to-door service, offer the 5? self-delivery discount. Key to the decision-a signal victory for the railroads-was the discovery by the I. C. C. that less-than-carload shipments had risen briskly in the West and Southwest, thus proving that the public wanted the service...