Crossword-Solution: SISK 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Bill Sisk of Excelsior Springs is president of the Bill Club, Bill Hyder is secretary, and Bill Flack treasurer.

You know those Sisk glass percolators? I'm going to drop them." "Why, I thought you were selling so many of them!" "Yes, I am, but I got a letter from them yesterday telling me that the discount had been reduced from 40 to 25 per cent., and there's nothing doing at that price." "I wish you wouldn't talk such slang." "What do you mean, slang?" "Why, 'nothing doing.' I wish you would learn to cut it out.

There," she said vexedly, "I'm catching that bad habit from you!" To come back to that Sisk percolator.

Suddenly she said: "Really, those Sisk persons are remarkably clever, don't you know! I believe it was their plan to reduce the discount from 40 to 33⅓ per cent., and they studied the psychology of the matter and decided that--and I think you will agree with me, Dawson--that, had they merely written, in the first place, announcing that the discounts were reduced from 40 to 33⅓ per cent., their customers would feel annoyed at the reduction of their profits.

Credits: Producer, Robert Sisk; director, John Farrow; screenplay, Dalton Trumbo; music score, Roy Webb; editor, Harry Marker.