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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Commission had burrowed down to A. & P.'s "unsatisfactory list," a file of suppliers who got no orders because they refused to yield to A. & P.'s economic bludgeoning. In previous hearings the Commission had learned how A. & P. bought Fleischmann's Yeast at 14 ?per lb., whereas little bakers paid as much as 25? how A. & P. had extracted a 4% discount on canned soups and vegetables from Maryland's Colonel Albanus Phillips; how A. & P. got 3% off on sardines from R. J. Peacock Canning Co. in Lubec...
...company that also failed to see the distinction was big California Packing Corp. There had been talk of relegating California Packing to the "unsatisfactory list" but since A. & P. could not very well refuse to handle nationally-advertised Del Monte brands, it merely resorted to what was referred to in an A. & P. general order as "putting on the heat." Although California Packing was only trying to stay within the law with a policy of one-price-to-all, A. & P. clerks made strenuous efforts to substitute other brands for Del Monte, buying was cut to a hand-to-mouth...
...DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND UNCONVENTIONAL ENGLISH - Eric Partridge - Macmillan ($12.50). Scholarly and gallant 999-page attempt to list the flood of "colloquialisms and catchphrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized" (40,000 entries in all) by an English lexicographer...
Already over 360 applications have been received towards an entering class limited to 500. The total to date is 36% over that at the corresponding time last year. As soon as the total number of places in the class are filled, additional applications will be placed on a waiting list for any vacancies. Although there will be some positions available because of men dropping out, it will not be possible, according to Dean Donham, to accept men as late in the Summer as has been the case in the last few years. In all 700 sought entry last September...
Heading the list of speakers at the three-day meeting, March 8-10, was Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, Associate Curator of Physical Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Dr. Shapiro is the first man to make a scientific study of the famous Pitcairn Island group, descendants of the mutineers of the "Bounty" and their Tahitian wives, whose marriages have provided modern science with a classic example of racial mixture...