Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backers of Fair Trade pricing, who have been fighting a losing battle against discount houses, last week were dealt one of the hardest blows of all. General Electric Co., the biggest U.S. appliance manufacturer, abandoned "suggested" list prices for major appliances (e.g., dishwashers, ranges, air conditioners, etc.), "to meet highly volatile and competitive conditions...
...announcement came the same day that Federated Department Stores, Inc., second biggest U.S. department-store chain, announced that it will cut Fair Trade prices at all its 34 stores to meet competition from the discount houses. Federated was not the first to challenge the discount houses on their own ground. Since summer, Detroit's big J. L. Hudson Co. and St. Louis' three biggest department stores have widely advertised that they will meet the lowest prices in town on any item, whether Fair Traded or not (TIME, Sept...
Undergraduates will need only their student ticket cards at the door to gain admittance to most winter sports contests. For varsity hockey games, which will be played at the Boston Garden, students will be entitled to a 50 per cent discount on the admission price of two dollars...
Lloyd Jordan has been around long enough to realize that injuries have a deceptive way of healing on the verge of Harvard-Yale games. "I discount the reports," he has repeated day after day. "At the start Yale had both quality and quantity. Even if they have had injuries, it has not affected their quality...
...premature to discount Roosevelt's political future altogether. One suspects that national committee-man Carmine De Sapio and his fellow Democratic leaders gave something to him in return for his agreement to accept a subordinate position on the ticket. That something may be a promise of the nomination for Senator in 1956, if Senator Lehman should decide to retire, or for Senator in 1958 against the apparently vulnerable Ives...