Word: epaphroditus
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...Epaphroditus Peck, export salesman for Chauncey Jerome, another pioneering clockmaker, taught the English an early lesson in Yankee underselling. British customs authorities seized his first shipment of clocks because they were invoiced at such a low price that it looked like fraud. Under British law, Mr. Peck received the amount of his invoice plus 10%, and the British Government sold his clocks while he settled comfortably in London to wait for another shipment. The British bit a second time, but by the time they gave up and let in his third shipment in orthodox fashion, the Jerome trade-mark...
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