Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Streams & Bales. The whole Administration plan was beginning to get as complicated as the riddle of the chicken and the egg. If saving eggs meant that the farmers would save grain by cutting back their flocks, who would eat the additional poultry they sent to market? If distillers and brewers cut down, what would happen to their unemployed workers? Unlucky Chuck Luckman himself pointed up another question. Turning up in Cambridge for a Chamber of Commerce dinner on meatless Tuesday, he sat down to a heaping plate of fried chicken (see cut). But what was the gain in simply swapping...
...Communist line to urban workers is relatively honest; it calls for more production. There is, however, a fundamentally revolting dishonesty about Communist propaganda in the countryside. It encourages the black market, incites farmers to demand highest possible prices for their goods, poisons peasant minds with insidious and repeated suggestions that townspeople are having a high old time at their expense...
...when the man in the market gets his connection, he can have no idea of how long he should properly wait for his prospect to be fetched. At Wellesley, the trek from the phone to the farthest room in Severance Hall covers slightly over one-eight of a mile...
...Through the Marshall Plan, Western Europe will never become self-sufficient. American capitalists will not allow those countries to compete with them on the international market and thus the plan will simply become a permanent dole," Sweezy asserted...
Preliminary research by the lab revealed that "many good hearing aids were on the market and that among the better ones there was little to choose; and secondly, that none of the models brought speech to the defective ear with the clarity and crispness required for understanding under conditions of noise and stress...