Word: margins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used another pair of gloves to hack the face of Middleweight Champion Vince Dundee. After eleven rounds, Dundee really began to fight. He won the last four rounds, did his best work in the 15th. but when the bell rang two of the three judges thought Yarosz's margin earlier in the bout entitled him to the championship...
...Observers believe, however, that this will not have the effect of giving Harvard men the benefit of continued very low prices, because the profit to the student organization is practically entirely in the nature of a sales commission, and the lower the basic prices go, the smaller becomes the margin available for commission allowance by the commercial house actually producing the service. The ultimate effect would be to make the field unprofitable for student organizations, with consequent lessening of competition and a corresponding rise in prices. But in the meantime, indications are that there will be a stiff fight...
...familiar with the Harvard Square trade have expressed the opinion to the CRIMSON that the list of items upon which discounts will be given will be so limited by the number of items upon which manufacturers insist upon obtaining published retail prices, and also by those in which the margin of retail profit is already small, that the service will not be entirely satisfactory to student members...
...John Wellington Finch, dean of the University of Idaho's School of Mines, was called to Washington to be made Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The day he arrived to receive his commission it was discovered that the President had not signed it. Scribbled on the margin was the note: "Held up because of political objections by the P. M. G." (TIME, July 30). Mr. Farley had found that the 61- year-old engineer, who had mined in Siam, Siberia, South Africa, Turkey, India and China, had once described himself as a Republican, had even tried...
...Perhaps you could get a Government check to apply on your margin account by having Mr. Wallace kill a few of your pigs or plow under some of your corn...