Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchant bought the lamp from a wholesale house (which would presumably take a profit of at least 3% for itself) for $1. he must mark it up to $1.07. The price would nevertheless be stabilized within narrow limits. So that a store's stocks might not become frozen through the operation of this provision, bona fide clearance sales, disposal of perishable goods and discontinued lines, genuine liquidation, were permitted at any prices a merchant chose...
...responsible for the Food & Grocery Wholesale & Retail Trades Code, was also alarmed. Retail price-fixing would make it more difficult for him to bring farm prices up to parity with manufactured goods. Though the Food Code went into hearings last week with a price-fixing clause-a 10% mark-up like the Retail Code but split 2?% to the wholesaler and 7?% to the retailer-few observers believed that it would get by Mr. Peek...
...Last week President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College. 70 this week. announced his retirement next June 30. He quoted famed Mark Hopkins: "I wish to resign that it may not be asked why I do not resign." Son of the 20th President of the U. S., Dr. Garfield practiced law in Cleveland, taught at Western Reserve and Princeton, became Williams' president in 1908. In 1917 Woodrow Wilson appointed him U. S. Fuel Administrator. Dr. Garfield is celebrated as earnest Dry and as founder of the Williamstown Institute, summer symposium of wise minds on world problems...
...deep, rich humor is the mark which separates Gertrude Stein from the stretches of the lunatic fringe. For her there is no working hour camaraderic in the lusty tradition of Murger; none of the careless, raptural inspiration of his Rodolfo. When the doors of 27 Rue de Fleurus are locked and the last villager has gone; in those sweet hours between midnight and dawn, when even Alice B. Toklas is abed, work, stern and serious, is the portion of Gertrude Stein...
...sanguine observers of international affairs, this will mark an occasion for the League to show its teeth, to bring into play all the machinery of economic boycott and strangulation upon which its real efficiency must depend. Observers, less sanguine perceive that the League of Nations, like a stock pool or a successful church, demands from its operators that they be in good faith, that they shall not bargain slyly around the corner. Perhaps Great Britain and France believe in the League, and are willing to commit themselves seriously to its processes; it is no very cynical asperity to remark that...