Word: discount
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lineup of the 1940 Amherst eleven. A flurry of Crimson fumbles and misplays decided the game that day, but such things continue to happen in modern football. As Bob Zuppke of Illinois once said when illustrating the folly of making one team a heavy favorite over another, "Don't discount the fact that a football is of peculiar shape and sometimes bounces funny." He went on to add that football games are decided 60 per cent on the comparative ability of the two teams and 60 per cent on their respective mental attitudes for the game...
...city's stores, half all those in the State. Already semi-monopolies because of State licensing laws, councilmen saw a chance to make real money when the Feld-Crawford Act was passed. Negotiating with the distillers, they obtained a uniform 40% retail markup, a 4 to 20% discount for large purchases besides. Under this scheme Council members could buy $1 liquor from the distiller for as little as 80?, resell it for $1.40, while their operating costs averaged less than 20? a bottle. When the distillers suggested a smaller margin, the Council said "no," even talked about...
...chair, talked as though Secretaries of State and Foreign Ministers were human beings. With the same tactics in 1933, Cordell Hull had saved the International Conference of American States at Montevideo from complete collapse. Until he exhausted this shirt-sleeve diplomacy in Havana, wise men did not entirely discount U. S. hopes for: 1) some sort of Pan-American "collective trusteeship" over French, Dutch, perhaps British possessions in Latin America; 2) at least a start toward a Hemisphere trade cartel, wherewith to combat Nazi commercial and political fifth columny; 3) military cooperation, when & if necessary...
...noted that in 1938 Latin America alone grossed about $1,200,000,000 from overseas sales of coffee, meat, sugar, wool, cotton, hides and skins, wheat, corn. Their idea: to form a kind of Hemispheric Surplus Commodities Corporation to buy up these surpluses, store them, sell them at a discount to the Red Cross, or do anything to keep them off the U. S. market. Such action would be simply an expensive move to bail out Latin America. Its justification: unless the U. S. bails out Latin America, it will be forced to fall in with Nazi economic aims...
...being prevented for want of wrappers from competing in the lucrative Old Gold contest. Since then he has piled up more than a hundred varieties of box tops and wrappers, getting as much as 50? for one item in his stock. Broker Eggleston gets his wares at a heavy discount from churches, orphanages, political clubs, usually peddles them retail from 1? to 7?. Included in his bales at the moment are wrappers from Bit-O-Honey and Mars Milky Way candy, Camay, Oxydol and Ivory Soap, box tops from Wheaties and Kellogg's Corn Flakes...