Word: trimmings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like side-view mirrors and seat covers usually have a 40% markup. >Different models in the same series are basically the same-in engine, frame, suspension, wheels and performance. Thus the listed $244.92 difference between a Ford Custom and a Ford Galaxie is spent almost entirely on chrome and trim. >When a new model is introduced, the manufacturer automatically pays the dealer a 5% rebate for old models still in stock, and this can make a difference of $200 on a $4,000 car. Knowing that this rebate is automatic, dealers can anticipate it by several weeks, and pass...
...loud and clear. For public consumption at least, Guildsman Murphy demanded as the price of merger that the publishers keep their entire present staffs on salary for at least one year-a proposal that the publishers were quick to squelch. One of the major reasons for merging is to trim costs by cutting payrolls...
...vote that displayed unaccustomed G.O.P. solidarity. After barely failing to eliminate $12 million in rent-subsidy appropriations the week before, the Republican House leadership abandoned attempts at selective pruning, instead touted an across-the-board cut of 5% on all domestic appropriations. Unable to trim bills totaling $8.4 billion to finance several executive departments, House Republicans restrained their frugal impulses long enough to join unanimously in adding $109 million to a bill raising federal employees' salaries...
...Soup President Willam B. Murphy ordered aides to cut back on all capital expenditures except those that are "absolutely required," and not to be outsouped, H. J. Heinz Co. Board Chairman H. J. Heinz II ordered a similar review. Alcoa, Continental Oil and Reynolds Metals promised to try to trim their outlays...
Lyndon Johnson, looking trim and tanned, is in pretty good humor himself these days, and he is only too happy to account for it. He is optimistic that by continued persuasion and pressure -"the jawbone technique," in Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler's phrase -he can keep the booming U.S. economy from spiraling out of control. On the international scene, he can only be reassured by the strident argy-bargy between Moscow and Peking, despite some pundits' predictions that the U.S. stand in Viet Nam could only induce harmony between the two great Communist powers (see THE WORLD...