Word: hawkinge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ticket scalpers had a bad time, and most of the men who remembered last year's high prices felt mighty smug about it. At 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, a pair of seats could be had for downwards of five dollars. Dozens of big, vividly-tailored dealers were hawking...
By 1941, some $450,000,000 in merchandise was "given away" as premiums every year. The business accounted for as much as 30% of all U.S. china manufacture, 15% of enamelware and 10% of aluminumware. As premium dispensers bought wholesale and marked up prices only enough to cover costs, thrifty...
One pleasant evening a truckload of monopoly police cruised down the main streets of Formosa's capital, Taipeh, hunting monopoly violators. They piled out, clubbed a woman who had been hawking cigarets. (This was against Chen's law, which said that Formosans could smoke only Formosa-made cigarets...
U.S. seedsmen were hawking their spring wares with a new peacetime vigor, hoping to keep sales near wartime levels. In the annual carnival of catalogues, the color work was gaudier than ever, the prose more aglow than before with full-bodied, giant varieties of superlatives.
Food for the Devout. It was the people's parade. At one point the mayor, by tradition, set his shoulder to the timber, helped carry the image. Just behind the penitents ranged vendederos, hawking soft drinks and Lima's best cakes.