Word: successes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan itself. The NSA's idea--to persuade selected stores to grant discounts to student card-holders in return for the resulting increase in trade--is an ingenious answer to the high cost of learning. It was tried out last year at the University of Buffalo with some success, and has been instituted in 17 other areas all over the country. What with the new tuition hike and the financial pressures of living under the G.I. bill, any good plan for saving deserves a fair tryout...
Perhaps the most important reason for the current failure of the plan is the limited range of participating stores in the area of the Square. The success of the Purchase Card depends upon its local showing; the present nine member stores around the Square form a good nucleus, but the variety of goods, services, and price levels they cover is not wide enough to make the plan sell. In the minds of many students, the present Purchase Card System is merely an ineffective duplication of the Coop...
Financial Success...
Lacking sufficient quantities of Compound E, the group initiated experimental treatments which, it was believed, should stimulate the patient's hormones to give off Compound E. He said that their efforts had met with some success, and that patients had been benefited...
...first set of nine horses headed for the track. During the next five hours, 28 Calumet horses kept moving under the watchful eye of Trainer H. A. ("Jimmy") Jones. But the one man most responsible for the stable's extraordinary success, recognized by his fellow horsemen as the best in the business with something to spare, wasn't even there. Calumet's famed Benjamin A. (for Allyn) Jones, trainer of five Kentucky Derby winners and leading money-winning trainer last year, was in Kentucky handling another string of Calumet horses...