Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shady phantom looks up from his porridge and talks--Lowell, Adams, Winthrop, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Dudley, and Dunster--in that very order
...gambles, soft-soaps, bludgeons, picklocks his way out of scrapes and up the ladder. And the play's interest really lies much less in whom he does it for than in how he does it; the Edward role seems a bit of a phony as well as a phantom...
...years the Federal Trade Commission poked and jabbed at heavy industry's . basing-point system ,of pricing. Under that system, producers absorbed enough freight costs to "meet competition" in areas distant from their mills, added "phantom freight" costs on some short-haul sales. Thus they got to identical prices at any given destination. Last April, the Supreme Court upheld FTC's charge that such identical prices added up to trustlike collusion. The court ordered the defendants in the case, the cement industry, to drop the basing-point system. The order went into effect last week...
...serial's heyday, women were the stars (Pearl White in 1913-14 in The Exploits of Elaine and The Perils of Pauline). But in 1935, Republic made millions out of The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry, and ever since it's been a man's world...
...Beyond the base price the buyer also paid freight costs from the nearest basing point plant. All cement plants in the U.S. thus charged the same price for cement laid down at any one job. The plants closer to the consumer than the basing point plant tacked on a "phantom freight" which was more than the shipping cost; the plants farther away charged a freight which was less (and took less profit...