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Word: shopper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard P. Kluckhohn, son of Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, drew a one to two year sentence Monday for the slaying of a woman shopper behind a Raleigh, N.C., hotel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kluckhohn Receives One Year Sentence | 3/28/1956 | See Source »

...stamps ultimately finds its way into the store's markup. In a study of western retailers, the University of New Mexico Bureau of Business Research discovered that most raised prices about 4% to make sure that all extra expenses would be taken care of. Thus, if a shopper filled four books of stamps by buying $480 worth of groceries and won a $13 chafing dish, she would get nothing free. She would pay about $20 in inflated markups. As far back as 1916, the U.S. Supreme Court saw the danger of trading stamps, called them "an appeal to stupidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADING STAMPS: A Hidden Charge in the Grocery Bill | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Among those puffing their way up the descending escalator of intellectual fashion, many have cause to remember the shrewdly placed elbow and deft umbrella of a comparative shopper in ideas called Mary McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cye | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...news of Westinghouse's move hit Fair Traders, three manufacturers-General Electric, Sunbeam and Proctor Electric-announced they would hold the line. But it is a hard line to hold. The smart shopper can usually find name appliances below the "suggested" list price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Deserter from Fair Trade | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Burma's gentle, shrewd Premier U Nu, who has been touring the world's capitals from Peking to Washington like a kind of international comparison shopper, faced newsmen on his own home ground last week and reported a neutralist's findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Shopper's Report | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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