Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buick-Chevrolet-Pontiac Dealer Lee Anderson of Lake Orion, Mich., who complained that the company permitted employees to but cars at a discount for resale, had his facts wrong. Employees could buy only one car a year, had to promise not to sell it until introduction of the next model. G.M. canceled his franchise only after Anderson publicly and repeatedly "bitterly criticized" G.M. policies. But Anderson was not ruined; between 1946 and 1954, Anderson made $700,000 in salaries and profits...
...also quick to convert night-school theory into practical business use. Two department-store buyers who were moaning about discount-house competition in Marx's office one day were flabbergasted when the toymaker interrupted them: "It's like this guy Toynbee says. It's a question of challenge and response. These discount houses are the challenge that is going to make department stores into merchants again...
...first. Americans might have tended to discount the report as just another fantastic boast about Russia. Then the sto ries began to sound more reliable, and musicians looked East with wild surmise...
...week to get their tickets, undergraduates frequently had to scour the College on Monday merely to get the envelopes with which to apply for tickets. A similar problem became even more infuriating a week before the Yale game, when House superintendents ran out of Yale discount slips on Monday and gave out Dartmouth ones in stead. A few days later the H.A.A. announced that it could not accept the Dartmouth slips, so some 130 upperclassmen were out not only $3 each but also their priority on the better seats in the Bowl. It was at this point that Mr. Lunden...
...applications for student tickets for the Yale game must be handed in to the HAA office, 60 Boylston Street, by 5 p.m. today. Undergraduate tickets cost two dollars, accompanied by a signed discount slip which will be available with the regular brown envelopes. Extra tickets cost five dollars...