Word: discounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east to Boston and New York City. Columbia, which cut prices first, offers customers a second record at half price, with each purchase of a record at half price, with each purchase of a record at the regular retail price. In effect this is equivalent to a 25 percent discount. RCA struck back by cutting prices on all long-playing RCA Victor records by 30 percent...
Both Briggs and Briggs, which normally gives a 20 percent discount on most of its records, and McKenna's, which doesn't regularly offer any discount, have gone along with the price cuts ordered by RCA and Columbia...
...told them that the pressure on culture in America is "not only to think, act, talk, and even look alike, but also, it would seem now, increasingly to want to do so. The consequence is that at the moment individuality is selling at a considerable discount...
...Discount houses will soon find detectives checking up on their activities. The W. A. Shaeffer Pen Co. has hired three agencies (Burns, Pinkerton, Willmark) to find out how discount men get hold of Shaeffer pens (some $125,000 worth in 1953) to sell below Fair Trade minimums...
Whatever portion of the blame for this you assign to the public, a good share must go to those professors and students who completely discount public opinion as irrational blabbering of a "great beast." And part must also go to university officials who carried traditional Harvard indifference to the point of refusal to dignify charges with convincing replies. Freedom of inquiry and publication may have made inevitable the University's acquisition of a Red label in the thirties--a label fixed even firmer in the last three years by those who hunt throughout history to make headlines. But the University...