Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago a certain brand of marshmallows was sold only in confectionery stores. The marshmallow concern had a market survey made and found that marshmallows could be sold in grocery stores as well. They went about securing such distribution and today 95 per cent of their product is sold in grocery stores and the yearly volume of sales has increased more than 60 per cent...
...detecting what sort of bug was eating cabbage leaves and what in the soil was deterring the growth of corn, wheat or other crops. In fact, nearly a hundred ways were found for the practical use of the microscope on the farm. Accordingly, this manufacturer's biggest market for microscopes has been developed among the farmers of the country...
...however, over the last four months have gone down to 50? a pound from 65?. British tin hunters in the Straits Settlements are feeling the competition of U. S. producers in Bolivia. Lord Askwith, their bugler, has too much Straits tin to sell to the U. S. and the market ceaselessly declines...
...several months, nevertheless 9,300 Vacuum oil stockholders were reassured last week that their great lubricating oil company was in a better state of financial health than the ailing gasoline companies. The morning's mail brought announcement of a 100% stock dividend, worth $367,328,304 at the market price of the stock...
...cocktail sets and dole-fed Lower Classes. There were still the flower women at the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside, inside St. Margaret's, and not to watch as usual from outside...