Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quail Stuffers. To fatten quail for market, Italian and Polish gaveurs (bird stuffers) work in Paris market-hall cellars, chewing up grain and fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected, ulcerated; the gaveurs are miserable, sometimes die. ... So reported the Journal of the American Medical Association, ever on the alert for new occupational diseases...
While Brazilian Consul-General Sebastaio Sampaio did his best to soothe with fine words New York's unruly coffee market, President Washington Luis Pereira de Souza of Brazil struggled in Rio de Janeiro with a coffee crisis twice as acute, infinitely more ominous...
...country's prosperity is almost entirely dependent on coffee. Mountains of brown beans in Brazilian coffee warehouses, the certainty that the monopolistically raised price of coffee could not long withstand overproduction, caused the coffee market to crack fortnight ago (TIME...
...declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market on his own slight shoulders...
Although the Foshay failure last week closely coincided with the Stock Market crisis it was not born of it. No Foshay enterprises were financed except by Foshay securities which were sold to employes or businessmen in districts which Foshay companies served. Causes of the Foshay failure seemed to be overexpansion and the depreciation of real estate holdings. The failure was chiefly remarkable for two things: it was the largest in the history of the Northwest; the man who failed had thrice made a fortune and might make a fourth...