Word: discountable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supermarkets, other businessmen, notably appliance makers, have learned an important lesson: fewer, but bigger dealers provide a larger market for their products than a long string of small dealers. Many have already begun to prune their franchise holders; some are even inclined to close their eyes to cut-rate discount houses simply because they move such vast quantities of goods. Although big appliance makers, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, still keep their distributors, they are shipping more and more goods directly to their dealers. This enables them to cut costs by pooling orders from dealers in the same area...
...slump, it has usually followed a directly opposite policy over the long run, on the theory that the lower the price, the wider the market. Auto dealers are once again proving the truth of this maxim. Loaded down with new cars, they have kept sales up by offering big discounts and trade-in allowances. In similar fashion, while many appliance dealers are loaded up with hard goods, the discount houses in the big cities have proved that they can move mountains of appliances by cutting prices-and still make a good profit doing so. In short, unofficial price cutting...
Plans for the NSA currently call for the installation of a program which would give Harvard students discount rates for foreign travel...
...Freedom Village, he had a list of 3,272 fellow prisoners as potential customers. As soon as he could get pen and paper, he sent the names and addresses to his old employer. Hanson Chevrolet sent out 2,000 letters offering the sergeant's friends a $300 "Wilkins discount" on a new car, urged them to come to Detroit to pick it up. Last week the company announced that 21 ex-prisoners have already done so (one former colonel came all the way from Georgia), and 500 in all have written to say they are interested. Salesman Wilkins...
...past, students could purchase a ticket for the Yale game at New Haven at half price. Each student is also entitled to an extra seat at the full price. His statement ended speculation at the College that the new free ticket system would abolish the usual discount for a contest at Yale...