Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provide a wholesale rollback is hardest on the patriotic merchant who tried to keep the lid on his prices (by averaging his costs), while the one who jumped his prices as fast as his costs rose is rewarded. National Retail Dry Goods Association's General Manager Lew Hahn gulped down his disappointment, promised that his 6,000 members "will do their best." But Lew Hahn and his colleagues foresaw plenty of other horrors...
...allowances, discounts, etc., not only for OPA itself but for carping customers. This is an expensive nuisance to large retailers. But to the hundreds of thousands of small grocers, general merchants, etc., who keep records in an aboriginal way if at all, the clerical problem is almost hopeless. Lew Hahn thought that a lot of small fry would be put out of business if the recording provisions were strictly enforced...
...Dodds was no stranger to Garden fans. They remembered his first appearance in the Millrose Games three years ago, when he was a sophomore at Ashland College (Ohio). Because little Ashland had no track team, Dodds had learned the ABCs of foot racing by correspondence with Lloyd Hahn, onetime mile champion who lived in his home town...
Other Yardlings winning prizes for their essays on some aspect of American history were James E. McNulty, Jr., and Mellvin L. Milliagan, 2nd, who won $25 apiece. Honorably mentioned were William H. Hahn, Jr., and Herbert...
...minute" and "You can't do this to me," not to mention those fine old Harvard phrases, "I want me a highball," "Sister, one crack enter you and I'll smack your ears down," and "I oughter beat the pants off of you." --Submitted by Pilot-Officer F. H. Hahn...