Word: discount
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany footloose in Europe, which means a Europe adequately organized under Germany hegemony. The tremendous problems involved in organizing such a Europe would, I think, provide surprises for those who believe that Europe will fall like a ripe plum into the waiting German hand. But even if we discount the military, menace, a German victory over France and England would oblige this country to become something approximating an armed camp. With the inevitable economic and social controls accompanying rapid militarization, we would face a regimentation in which our democratic system would be drastically altered. And this new regime would...
...police is still maintained, nevertheless the previous institutionalization of Lucas at the Grahamstown Mental Hospital, the distance of Grahamstown from Burghersdorp (where he was allegedly found among baboons), and the fact that there is no mention of the baboon incident in the Mental Hospital records, all would seem to discount the existence of a "feral" period in Lucas' life...
...when A. G. & E. Co., the system's top holding company, issued $63,000,000 of convertible debentures, ASECO and PUI agreed to take upwards of $20,000,000 worth at 97. On the theory that they were securities dealers, ASECO and PUI got a special discount of 1%, making the price...
Newsmen who sit at the end of the cables spot and discount plenty of propaganda that comes in. They are also partly protected by their jobs from that special form of propaganda which says that all news received from abroad is propaganda. They know for example...
...extra-legal interest. Doing an installment-sales-financing business in Manhattan's used-car district. Pacific Finance itself kept well within the law. A corporate Fagin. it did most of its sharking through dummy agencies, sometimes as many as 35 at once. Typical dummy: Chase Discount Corp., whose president and other officers were $25-a-week girls in Pacific Finance's of fice. Furnishing the capital and collecting the profits, Pacific never set its name to its dummies' paper. The Attorney General spent three years nabbing Pacific puppets before he found their sponsor...