Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Offered her a market into which she dumped $18,108,000 worth of odds and ends in the first five 1939 months: crabmeat, tea, pyrethrum flowers (for insecticides), chinaware, electric light bulbs, zippers, toys...
...penalty tariff on Japan's exports to the U.S. would hit the silk trade. Japan produces 75% of the world's raw silk, the U.S. consumes almost all of it, and neither can find an adequate market or source of supply elsewhere. U.S. women would suffer by paying more for silk stockings (half the world's silk sheathes their legs) and Japan would be threatened with permanent loss of part of her silk market to nylon, rayon and other synthetic U.S. yarns...
...other commodities Japan might lose her U.S. market more or less completely but, except as Japan's domestic consumption of cotton fell off, U.S. cotton producers might not suffer: if Brazil, for example, sells cotton to Japan instead of Britain, the U.S. should be able to sell to Britain instead of Japan...
...share, $1,591,992) since Christmas 1937. This good news was considerably bolstered by his announcement that second-quarter earnings ($3,822,927) were up a whopping 2.443% from the second quarter of 1938. Bethlehem's common stock greeted this by dropping half a point and the stock market as a whole by backing away from the peak it stopped at two weeks ago (144.71 on the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials...
...friend, keen-eyed William Thomas Carpenter, who ran a real-estate agency across the street from Dubil's butcher shop, joined the venture and they found a ready market for their laminated steaks in other shops. Bill Carpenter named them "Chip Steaks," set out to sell them in a big way. Presently William Dubil sold his patents to Carpenter for 25% of the Chip Steak royalties...