Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enthusiasm, Argentine football (i.e., soccer) fans rate with any sport fanatics in the world. Buenos Aires alone supports 16 big-league clubs and 24 second-class teams, each with its own stadium or field. The season runs for 30 weeks: on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, crowds totaling more than 300,000 turn out in the capital...
Sometimes, Mitzi says, she is afraid of getting to be 40. "I think maybe I'll look back and realize my work was tenth-rate. But meanwhile, I've got to keep hammering. It comes straight out of my nervous system. I'll probably die of a short circuit...
...many a radio store last week, hired snoops shopped busily for bargains. They were paid to hunt radio & television sets selling for less than the manufacturer's factory list price. Stores that made cut-rate sales were summarily cut off from factory shipments. Something called "fair trade" was at work...
...Rate. This hobbling of free competition began with retail druggists, who feared that cut-rate chains would put them out of business. In 1931, they rammed the first effective fair-trade act through the California legislature; it gave manufacturers and retailers the power to fix the resale price of commodities bearing a trademark. Later, the National Association of Retail Druggists lobbied the same law through other state legislatures. Fearing a clash with federal antitrust laws, the druggists in 1937 drummed the Miller-Tydings Act through Congress. It enabled many others besides druggists to fix prices...
...Rate. Harry Franks, treasurer of Boston's Richard Clothing Manufacturing Co., noticed that customers always like to test cloth by feeling it. To make this easy to do-and increase sales-he put bolts of cloth in his window, shoved their ends through slits below the window, and provided scissors with which passers-by could snip off samples...