Word: refundings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that engineer Crawford proved himself an expert manager. He brought in able young men, gave them room to grow, encouraged initiative. New President Wright, for example, started in with a Cleveland law firm as a legal consultant to Thompson, soon won a $100,000 tax refund for the company. Impressed, Crawford took him on as his own assistant when he became president, gave him ever-growing responsibility...
...stunned citizens of Sandusky were still trying to decide which man's word to take, were still wondering whether anyone had pocketed any of the money. But these questions were only the beginning of their problem. By law, the state of Michigan has the right to demand a refund for all overpayments made since 1950. After 15 years of happy coasting, Sandusky is not accustomed to meeting that sort of bill...
Building on retailing's oldest precept, that the customer is always right, the Webbers established a host of services, including one of the most liberal refund systems in the world. If a Hudson's customer decides he doesn't like something he has bought, all he has to do is pick up the phone and say so; one of Hudson's 300 delivery trucks will come and take the merchandise back. Hudson's has been known to credit merchandise bought ten years before and never used. Last year, Hudson's actually sold more than...
...Herbert J. Spire, teaching fellow in Government, said last night to charges that he had turned in his students' postcards to the Post Office for a refund...
...Lampoon took advantage of the CRIMSON's notoriously prosperous financial condition to issue the first local parody. Aided by a traitorous Crimed, the 'Poon put out a spurious issue announcing, among other things, that all subscribers could receive a $1 refund by calling at the paper's office. The stunt left a good deal of hardfeeling...