Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rome. Observers marvelled, and wondered what Candidate Smith and his managers would think, when James John Walker, New York City's glib and dapper Mayor, rated to be as smart and faithful a supporter as the Brown Derby could have, touched upon a ticklish subject, in a public speech (to some Roman Catholics) as follows: "It is not so long since I was forced to listen to a tirade of a sort not unfamiliar to you, when a friend from one of the bucolic districts asked me if it were not a fact that all my public acts were...
...Smart citizens of Paris felt a twinge of pique, last week, at news that a plan originally conceived by Louis XV's great architect Jacques Ange Gabriel to beautify the present Place de la Concord will shortly be carried to completion...
When the plaint of tobacco jobbers and retailers reached President George J. Whelan of the Union Tobacco Co.-that they were not making a living margin of profit on tobacco sales-President Whelan set up a smart system of selling them goodwill as well as tobacco. The system, as developed last week, is to give Union Tobacco stock shares to jobbers and retailers in proportion to their purchases. For every $1,000 of Union Tobacco goods a jobber buys he is to get one certificate of Union Tobacco stock worth nominally $30. That is a 3% bonus. For every...
...Smart Selling. In April President Colby Mitchell Chester made a smart change in methods of selling the many Postum food products. He told all customers who bought directly from Postum's agencies that if they bought 10% more goods this year than last they would get a 1% "bonus" (rebate) on their total purchases. For 15% increase the "bonus" is 1.5%; for 20% increase, 2%. The company's net sales the first three months of this year were $21,139,535; last year $12,704,761. Net income those months this year $3,910,160; last year...
Last week when the season opened, Lauri-Volpi sang Rhadames in Aida. The smart citizens of Buenos Aires cheered the performance; one fat dealer in sheep's wool as he got into his Hispano-Suiza was heard to gurgle his approval in unquotable terms...