Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea was to prevent dishonest motorists from using one set of tags for two cars. Previously a motorist would explain he had lost...
Senator Glass ridiculed the idea of passing the Jones Resolution for another joint Commission on Prohibition, declaring: "There is not a fact to be ascertained, not one, not now immediately available to the President and the department heads affected. It is an attempt by the executive . . . to shift to the Congress initial responsibility...
...learn?and this idea would be natural to him?that M. Moreau-Vauthier is disposed to decorate with bulbous figures and cartouches, more or less baroque, guess what: the prows of our cruisers. The interior would be bad enough, but the exterior silhouet...
...best merchandising idea of Edward Albert Filene was probably the Bargain Basement, which, first known as Filene's Folly, has since been widely copied. Basement merchandise was sold on the plan of reducing the price for every week that the goods remained unpurchased. Thus a dress might have a first price of $25, and, if not sold at this figure, go down to $22, to $20. to $18 until someone finally bought it. Many a thrifty Boston housewife, eyeing some Basement article, would stand torn with indecision, balancing her chance of waiting another week and getting a lower price...
Next fall, Choreographer Laban expects to visit the U. S. Perhaps his idea will result in a National Streetdancing Advertising Co. Or perhaps he will find that the U. S. is not yet sufficiently ballet-conscious for the idea to "take...