Word: discount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though many would-be purchasers grumble about the high cost of color, price seems to be secondary to style and quality in the eyes of most buyers. Discount houses commonly offer small, 19-in. color sets for less than $300, and RCA last week temporarily cut the list price of its cheapest set from $400 to $380 in a one-shot promotion. These stripped-down, metal-encased models do not move as fast as the higher-priced ones; the hottest sellers are the walnut or mahogany models that have such popular accessories as remote controls and automatic demagnetizers and sell...
...whose chairman is Charles Kellstadt, ex-chief of Sears, Roebuck, and among whose major stockholders is Publisher Gardner Cowles. It reports $4,000,000-a-year sales of Florida realty to investment-minded Europeans and Latin Americans. The firm sometimes charters flights for foreign prospects, who get a $125 discount if they...
Both the radio station and the newspaper have vociferously supported the recent student demands for a discount at the university-owned book store, which has been accused of "excessive profits...
...stop its boom from moving too fast. The Continent was actually relieved by predictions that most economies will slow down in 1965, but it has not relaxed its vigilance against inflation. To prevent further rises in wages and prices, West Germany's Bundesbank last week raised its discount rate from 3% to 3½%, serving notice that prospering West Germany feels that it is time for some restraint...
...offering a pipeful of Masterpiece tobacco to a fellow, scarcely seen on the screen, who is presumably worthy of her favors. Phil Silvers extols Pream. Mamie van Doren, with a kind of exactitude of casting, appears in a $39.98 dress covered with glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house. She also works for Aqua Velva. Joseph Cotten discusses the miracle of Bufferin, and so does Arlene Francis, for which each was paid $50,000. Imogene Coca appears for Armstrong Cork. Louis Jourdan, surprisingly, appears for Prell Shampoo. The Lustre-Creme seraglio has included Jill St. John, Juliet Prowse, Jeanne...