Principles of Scientific Purchasing

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McGraw-Hill book Company, Incorporated, 1928 - 301 páginas

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Página 74 - A contract to sell goods is a contract whereby the seller agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a consideration called the price. (2) A sale of goods is an agreement whereby the seller transfers the property in goods to the buyer for a consideration called the price.
Página 173 - The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, the engineers tell us," said Longworth, " and it is the same with evidence.
Página 253 - The Paymaster General of the Navy is responsible for the keeping of the property and money accounts of the Naval Establishment, including accounts of all manufacturing and operating expenses at navy yards and stations: the direction of naval cost accounting and the audit of property returns from ships and stations. He...
Página 252 - It shall approve the design of hospital ships in so far as relates to their efficiency for the care of the sick and wounded. It shall require for all supplies, medicines, and instruments used in the Medical Department of the Navy. It shall have control of the preparation, reception, storage, care, custody, transfer, and issue of all supplies of every kind used in the Medical Department for its own purposes.
Página 35 - ... net resultant of a complex of forces among which the rhythm of business activity is only one. Harvest conditions, domestic politics, changes in monetary and banking systems, international relations, the making of war or of peace, the discovery of new industrial methods or resources, and a thousand other matters all affect the prospects of profits favorably or adversely and therefore tend to quicken or to slacken the pace of business. The fact that the rhythm of business activity can be traced...
Página 252 - Accounts comprise all that relates to the purchase (including the preparation and distribution of schedules, proposals, contracts, and bureau orders and advertisements connected therewith, and the Navy's list of acceptable bidders), reception, storage, care, custody, transfer, shipment, issue of and accounting for all supplies and property of the Naval Establishment except medical supplies (but including their purchase) and supplies for the Marine Corps. The Paymaster General of the Navy has direction...
Página 169 - If this bid be accepted within calendar days from the date of the opening, to furnish any or all of the items upon which prices are quoted, at the price set opposite each item, delivered at the point(s) as specified and, unless otherwise specified within calendar days after receipt of order.
Página 161 - An act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes " (commonly known as the Clayton Act), approved October 15, 1914.
Página 164 - Time, in connection with discount offered, will be computed from date of the delivery of the supplies to carrier when final inspection and acceptance are at point of origin, or from date of delivery at destination or port of embarkation when final inspection and acceptance are at those points, or from date correct bill or voucher properly certified by the contractor is received If the latter date is later than the date of delivery.
Página 8 - Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale; but the word has been generalized, so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity. A great city may contain as many markets as there are important branches of trade, and these markets may or may not be localized. The central point of a market is the public exchange, mart or auction rooms, where the traders agree to...

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