Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students are reminded that applications for tickets to the Michigan game close today. The discount coupons which are found in the back of the H. A. A. book must be handed in before 6 o'clock in order to secure reduction in prices...
...second menace to the tobacco industry will have been removed. Although chain stores can afford to sell cigarets at no profit, or even a loss, the war has been expensive to smaller merchants. With cigarets costing them $6 per 1,000 the package price has been (allowing for discount) 10.58?. Selling at two for 25?, the package profit has been only 1.92?, while at two for 23? it has been .92?. Since the package price is 11.28? at the new wholesale price, by selling cigarets at 15? again the merchants would make their former margin of 3.72?, which...
Silent for many a week of the Bank of England's discount rate (TIME, Aug. 19), Governor Montagu Collet Norman last week sent a uniformed messenger scurrying through the bank's corridors, bearing over his head a sign: "BANK RATE...
...Discount coupons for tickets to the West Point and Dartmouth games, which are found in the back of the H. A. A. book, must be handed in before 6 o'clock October 2 in order to secure the reduction in prices available to all members of the H. A. A. Students are advised not to wait until the last minute rush to secure their seats...
...wrought her.' Last March John Macrae, president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), called the Book-of-the-Month Club "an octopus that sucks away the life blood of the book business." His specific charges: i) Club judges were influenced in book selections by the Club management; 2) discount rate of book purchasing by the Club sometimes exceeded its announced rate; 3) the Club's purpose was misleading. Piqued, the Club sued President Macrae for libel, asked $200,000 damages. Admitting he was "wrong," President Macrae last week retracted his charges. The Club dropped its suit. President Macrae...