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Word: refundable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Refund. J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc. petitioned the Pennsylvania Board of Finance and Revenue to refund an overpayment of stock-transfer stamps. The board granted it. The amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...special counsel for the city he helped win a Supreme Court decision ordering a $20 million refund to Chicago telephone subscribers. On the side he edited an impartial digest of legislative and court decisions for utility men and their attorneys. He built a brilliant legal reputation and a $20,000-a-year practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: On the Other Side of the Moon | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...week's end, the Republicans sat back to take stock. The week's efforts had brought House budget cuts to a total of $2,046,698,889 (including a highly dubious $800 million reduction in tax-refund estimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...month after it started, the great wave of price-cutting calmed down last week into a tiny ripple. Most of the merchants in Newburyport, Mass., who had started it all, abandoned their program to refund 10% on all retail purchases. So did Newburyport's imitators across the nation. Merchants called it all a mistake. In the last eddy of the wave kicked up by Newburyport, a grocer in Byington, Tenn. posted invoice prices on his goods, let his customers decide the markup. They decided 20%, which was his normal markup, was about right. His business improved. But by & large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: How Much? | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...Refund. In Brighton, England, Mordicisa James, 42, caught with his hand in a church poorbox, explained that he had contributed to it in the prayerful hope of finding a job, landed one that didn't pay enough, wanted his money back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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