Word: extinguishing
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...Fair Trade' pricing," said the report, "may enable distributors to extinguish price competition . . . 'Fair trade,' when used as a device for relieving distributors from the rigors of price competition, is at odds with the most elementary principles of a dynamic free-enterprise system."Congress should repeal the Miller-Tydings law, which exempts price-fixers of name-brand products from antitrust action, and the McGuire Act of 1952, which makes a minimum-price agreement signed by one retailer with a manufacturer binding on all retailers in a state. Said the committee: "As a result of local enabling...
...calculate that one housewife in three will buy the high-priced model, the pattern is repeated daily in thousands of U.S. homes. In Seattle, vacuum cleaners are popular bait. Radio station KOL advertised a rebuilt vacuum cleaner for $8.95, but a demonstration showed that it lacked the suction to extinguish a match, and the salesman switched to a $120 cleaner...
Churchill's opposite number in France, Paul Reynaud, was a man of "innate loyalty and pluck." But the men who stood closest to Reynaud were, in Spears's eyes, a diversity of wet blankets with a single aim-to extinguish the fire in their Premier's heart. The chief among them...
...exposes the old man's imperfect faith by selling him a lock and a money belt, and giving him a counterfeit-detector as a bonus. The confidence-man gently chides the old fellow, "since in Providence, as in man, you and I equally put trust." "Let me extinguish this lamp," he says, and as he leads the old man off into the darkness, the confidence-man is no longer a smooth-talking Iago turned riverboat swindler, but the Devil himself holding the whole earth in his black hand...
...almost the same time that Bender staggered into the Claverly lobby, a fire started in room 41. A student and the night superintendent managed to get into the room, pull out a burning sofa, and extinguish the fire...