Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eckener bowed his head, closed his eyes for several seconds. Then he opened them again and said: "I cannot believe that anyone here believes we can use airships for military purposes in Germany. . . . Now is the time to sell it [helium]. In fifty years there will be no market for helium because there will be no airships. Airplanes will then supplant them...
When a Londoner hears the words "Covent Garden" he thinks of 1) vegetables, 2) opera. For Great Britain's largest garden-produce market and Great Britain's Royal Opera House lie within a stone's throw of each other on the fringe of London's fashionable West End. And both institutions have the same name. Historically, the vegetables got there first, for the name Covent Garden derives from an old convent garden which occupied the site in the days of many-wived King Henry VIII. Centuries later, in 1732, one John Rich built a theatre where...
Bridget and Katie Costello, Jimmy Carroll, Jimmy McNally, Petie and Bridget Riley had died in various Southern towns since May 1, 1937. Their bodies had been shipped to undertakers in the vicinity, to be kept against the next spring buryings. When the last April mule market closed, the Irishmen put their families into their cars, mostly new ones with trailers, and set out for Mrs. Robertson's. They maintain stoutly that they are not a clan, just a large group of countrymen with a common trade. No one knows how the meetings started, but they have been going...
...Absolute secrecy was essential," Sir John said, "to prevent prices from being raised by knowledge [among food sellers] of the Government coming into the market. Had it been known, of course, the effect on prices would have been disadvantageous to consumers generallv as well as to the Government." That U. S. wheatmen have not been asking much as they would have asked had n Sir John and Mr. Chamberlain been secretive, and by the same token U. S. citizens have not had to pay as much for wheat and bread as otherwise would have been the case...
...theme that "high-pressure salesmanship" of the manufacturers has contributed to the present automobile glut, Gardner Withrow several times used phrases direct from a press conference of Franklin Roosevelt's along those lines four months ago (TIME, Jan. 17). According to Mr. Withrow this forcing of the market amounts to more than 1,000,000 used cars a year and largely accounts for the annual mortality of from 17% to 25% of dealer establishments. His words brought cheers from the dealers, though a few of them voiced fear of "bureaucratic Government control...