Word: mackintoshes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bench Court. There, concluding 43 days of hearings on the question of continued fixed retail prices in the candy industry, a panel of bewigged judges decided that they should be unfixed. Britain's five major candymakers-George Bassett & Co. Ltd., Cadbury Brothers Ltd., J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd., John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd., and Rowntree & Co. Ltd.-were ordered to end resale price maintenance. Hardly was the sense of the 45-minute decision clear when supermarkets, alerted by telephone, cut candy prices by as much as 25%. As the word spread, Britons went off on binges of toffee, chocs and boiled...
...Including Lieut. Commander Lachlan Ronald Duncan Mackintosh (the Mackintosh of Mackintosh) and Douglas Charles Lindsey Gordon (the Cock of the North...