Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill of particulars said that all products thus guaranteed did not live up to the claims made for them, that the seals tend to "mislead and deceive" buyers. Further FTC complaints: that readers get the erroneous impression that all products advertised in Good Housekeeping are covered by such seals of approval; and that advertisers use the statement "guaranteed by Good Housekeeping as advertised therein" with the phrase "as advertised therein" so blurred or microscopic as to be almost unreadable...
Objecting to general boosts in excise taxes as much as to a general sales tax, they recommended whopping "selective" sales taxes on such commodities as automobiles (up to 20%), refrigerators, washing machines, which compete with defense industries for materials and workmen and machine tools. This would tend to build up a backlog of consumer needs for the years after the war. Meantime they proposed to let the lower-income group-its wages raised by the defense boom-have its fill of food and other goods which do not compete with defense products...
...been played south of the Bravo (Rio Grande to Yanquis) for several years. It is called new by Mexicans because, with the fierce competition among composers for the few outlets Mexican music publishing offers, a song has to be very good to be heard at all, and Mexicans tend to prolong the youth of their limited number of songs almost indefinitely...
...Nazi] strategy is to enlarge all the fissures in American unity, aggravate all the conflicts, political, social, economic and racial, that tend to divide...
Since department stores, like railroads, have a relatively inflexible overhead, their profits tend to rise faster than their sales. In the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 1941, Gimbel Brothers upped earnings 67% on an 8% sales gain; Associated Dry Goods lifted profits 15% while sales rose 3%. Last week Marshall Field paid twice its usual dividend; Bloomingdale also increased its payment...