Word: shopper
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...