Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investors could buy the new shares only in Holland and at the official rate of 38? to the guilder, more than three times the free market rate in New York. They could either sell their options in the U.S.-at a huge discount caused by the Dutch regulations; or in Holland, where the proceeds would be frozen. The Dutch blandly said they were only trying to prevent a dollar drain...
Holders of annual coupon books will receive approximately a 50 percent discount on tickets for Crimson basketball and hockey games at the Boston Garden and Boston Arena. Tickets maybe bought at eeither the H.A.A. office or the Garden of Arena, but coupons can be exchanged for tickets only at the H.A.A., Lunden said...
...Animals in a Machine Age advocated training squirrels to operate textile bobbins, raccoons to run railways. While they worked it would be in the employer's best interest to keep them healthy and fat; when business slackened, the meat of those laid off could be sold at a discount. Citizens of Samuel Butler's mythical Erewhon outlawed and destroyed all but the most primitive mechanisms. Scraps of the forbidden machines were kept as museum pieces to warn Erewhonians what not to invent...
...press has tended to discount its own validity, and, as a result, the morale of its readers is low. They have been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...
Light Pound. The Newpacot Corp., exporters, advertised in the Wall Street Journal for anyone "interested in purchasing ?67,500 blocked sterling in London at a big discount." President C. Y. Wang, up against the international dollar shortage, explained that the "big discount" was "10% or more" on the official rate of $4.03. The New York price for sterling notes is $3.20 but an individual can only take ?20 into England...