Word: discount
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Artemus Ward cried: "Congress, you won't do. Go home you mizzerable devils-go home!" But Congress is used to brickbats and other forms of political rudeness native to the U.S. scene. Congress knows that it can discount a good deal of the characteristically jeering American attitude toward the elected representatives of the American people. For the U.S. Congress knows-as the American people know-that, in spite of sectional differences, in spite of politics and politicians and party lines, E Pluribus Unum is more than a coin...
Most U.S. citizens smugly regard their dollar as the solidest, most invulnerable currency in the world. The somewhat shocking fact is that the U.S. dollar now sells at a discount in relation to practically every other currency in which there is still a free market. The cause is simple. For once in its long, protectionist history, the U.S. is buying from much of the rest of the world more than it is exporting in return. (Lend-Lease arms for the United Nations and exports to U.S. armed forces naturally do not affect the balance of trade in terms of foreign...
...days later the committee announced a refinement. It was ready now to encourage taxpayers to "make themselves" current. The encouragement: a 1-to-4% discount for paying 1942 taxes ahead of the installment dates...
Conservatives can discount some of this dream but by no means all. The past ten years have seen a steady intensification of the battle for ore reserves which J. P. Morgan thought he had sewed up for U.S. Steel once and for all when he bought some of the great Mesabi mines from Rockefeller. Bethlehem has struck down into South America. Now, if Canada comes in, Big Steel's control of reserves-and perhaps its pocketbook-will be further affected. But for the U.S. economy as a whole, for the first time facing possible exhaustion of its finest ores...
...books, from teachers' manuals to a 900-page work that covered flying from Icarus to Zero. Macmillan's made publishing history by turning them out (ordinarily a six-month job) in 38 days. The books were distributed to schools at record low prices. At the school discount, the 900-page Science of Pre-Flight Aeronautics cost...