Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that the Nazis have called him insane, they have not denounced him. The professors discount the charge of mental derangement; since the failure of his peace venture necessitated some explanation by the Germans...
...which refused to expel him for French trial. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Last week he proclaimed himself first President of the new Croatia, including Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia and the old Croat Province. He named as his Premier his fellow Terrorist Slavko Kvaternik. Balkan experts tended to discount as propaganda rumors that the venerable Croat Peasant Leader Vladimir Matchek had sided with the peasant-haters...
...More prosperous investors will be offered other types of bonds. One suggestion: income bonds running from $100 to $10,000 face value, bearing semi-annual interest coupons. A novel sliding-scale redemption scheme would discourage selling before maturity. Another possibility is appreciation bonds to be sold on a discount basis (like baby bonds), to yield 2.4% if held for twelve years (baby bonds yield 2.9% in ten years...
...neither of whom got a drip of Mack's shower) knew exactly how it was done. By buying directly from manufacturers, Purchaser Mack had eliminated the wholesaler's commission. To the tradition-soaked leaders of an industry which believes in the sanctity of the wholesaler's discount and in the wholesaler's friend, the master plumber, as the only true outlet to the public, this was heresy. Adherents to The System, like Crane and American Radiator, call the renegades d-t-u's because they will sell directly...
...would (using the "average-earnings" option) owe $14,312 in taxes. By spending an extra $25,000 for advertising, this firm could reduce its tax bill to $4,152 (the normal tax on $25,000 income). Profits, of course, would also be reduced; the tax saving is merely a discount on the cost of the advertising. A. & S. ran tables of taxes on various profits under both the invested-capital and the average-earnings option, let advertisers calculate their possible savings at a glance...