Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discount houses have sprung up all over the U.S. because of 1) the big postwar increase in appliance stores which crowded the field and made things ripe for cutthroat competition; and 2) the U.S. Supreme Court's breach in fair-trade laws a year ago. Like after-hours saloons, discount houses often issue "membership cards" to their customers. Some discounters have little more than a small office and a catalogue; the customer orders from the catalogue, and the discounter calls a distributor and has the product delivered...
With its fantastic ambition, prospects and profiteering zest, Sáo Paulo stands now about where the U.S. stood at the end of the Gilded Age. The time is ripe for a home-grown Henry Ford to show these new industrialists how to make really big money by paying productive wages, adopting the techniques of mass production, and selling more for less. On its record of communal resourcefulness, Sao Pau'o can and should produce the man to show...
...Esther.* "The World's Greatest Cinderella Story, Ripe with the Wisdom of Ages, Yet Trembling with Topicality; Throbbing with Tempestuous Passion, Yet deeply Religious and Reverent . . . Sensational drama direct from the bestselling book of all time . . . Real wine was drunk in the screening of the royal feast...
...Harvard man is a drinking man. From the early days of ripe apples and the tang of sour cider, down through the uproarious debauches of the Memorial Hall dining room, students have preserved a taste for alcohol, straight or mixed...
...Communist Tudeh (masses) Party was busy. In recent months, droves of Russian agents have been sneaking across Iran's all but unguarded northeastern border. Their mission: to stir up riots and mastermind the revolution when Iran is judged ripe to be taken over. Of the same stock and tongue as northern Iranians, the agents from Russian Turkistan are well-trained and well-heeled. The agents steer clear of the big Russian embassy on Churchill Avenue, and get their orders from the Rumanian legation...