Word: markup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, dopesters suspected that things were not quite so bad as they seemed last week. Their grounds for suspicion: 1) distillers, already high up in the 1943 excess-profits-tax brackets, have almost no incentive for releasing stocks before the new tax year begins; 2) retailers, whose markup goes on after Federal and state liquor taxes, have every incentive to wait for Congress to decide on a higher liquor excise; 3) if some extra blending spirits could be found-perhaps in Cuba-existing stocks could be stretched, sold under new labels for about as much as straight whiskey brings...
...mileage will undercut the other big source - commercial operators who get more than they really need, "lose" ration books etc. Boot leg coupons are usually sold (for 3-5? a gallon) to gas stations which pass the gas on to unwitting joyriders as a "favor" (at a 100-200% markup over cost...
...were made by every nation in the last war and proved failures because of mounting confusion, shifts in production costs, etc. The alternative-to fix prices of a given commodity or raw material at the source of production and to regulate the subsequent percentage addition for processors and the markup for merchants-retards price rises, avoids stifling production, is easier to police...
...cameras, portable radios, sentimental "sweetheart pillows," with two hearts intertwined. For 3,000 standard items, Exchange Service sets a top price for P-X wholesale buying, thus does a big job of chain procurement. For the rest, the price is up to the local exchange officer. With his low markup, he knows that he will not be undercut by outside retail competition. His customers know...
...price seasonal merchandise like women's summer and fall clothing, which is not comparable to anything sold in march: 2) a similar decision on men's clothing for fall, where the wool shortage and recent wage increases pose special problems. Probable solution: allowing a normal markup...