Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havilland has reported no clues. But there were dozens of possibilities. British airmen were inclined to discount the theory first advanced that a flying turbine blade had caused the wing fuel tanks to explode, since the last Comet to crash had special armor between engines and tanks (TIME, March 22). Most think it more likely that either the kerosene-type fuel, which becomes highly volatile at high altitudes, exploded, or that vapor from a leaking hydraulic line might have been touched off by a spark. Others guessed that the big jet's power-operated controls, which give the pilot...
...benefits of the service are not just limited to the students. FitzPatrick, himself, is rewarded for his efforts to the sum of ten cents a book. For every third book the student receives a discount of five cents...
WAREHOUSE sales to clear out inventories have proved so successful that Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott department store is setting up a warehouse store on a permanent basis, thus hopes to win back some of the business lost to discount houses. The store will sell everything from TV sets to towels at bargain prices because of its low overhead, give shoppers a chance to save even more money (delivery cost ranges from $1 to $3 an item) by carrying their own purchases home...
Minute Man Radio Co., which usually advertises a 25 percent discount on record sales, disregarded the suggested price cuts and slashed prices on all RCA, Columbia and Westminster records by 40 percent...
Even so, price cutting in the Square is less severe than in New Haven. One merchant, David Dean Smith, is offering Yale students a full 50 percent discount on all brands of records...