Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those she has bought abroad and adapted. In Spain, modern German and Italian ships have been outmaneuvered by Russians flying modified Boeings of a type long obsolete in the U. S. Russia has also bought one of the new Douglas flying boats and a Sikorsky amphibian. Russia has on order at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore a $1,000,000 flying boat of the China Clipper type but considerably bigger, has also given contracts to Consolidated and to Vultee Aircraft, both in California. Fortnight ago Russia gave a contract for $370,000 to Seversky Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale...
Immediately each member asks his office for accumulated orders, notes them on a slip of paper, which is passed to the chairman. There may be 500 bars of gold for sale, orders for only 300, a "position" which would indicate a buyer's market.* After the chairman names the starting price-now the buying price of the Bank of France in terms of the latest quotation for pound sterling-the members make bids & offers, buying order being matched against selling order until supply & demand meet. The price at that point is the gold price for the day. The whole...
...pillar in the National Association of Food Chains, which has been creating an astonishing reserve of good will for its members by organizing selling drives to relieve farm surpluses. Last year it started off with a nation-wide campaign in canned peaches, cleaned up the glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains managed to increase beef sales 34% in the middle of summer, a poor beef season. The same thing was done with turkeys last autumn. From this type of practical relief the chain...
...time or strength left for thoughts about her own heart until, just as the time was drawing near for her debut, she met dour young Doctor Ivan. Ivan thought dancing and dancers ridiculous, but not Irina. They took each other so seriously that old Borodin had to order her back to her professional duty. Ivan was furious when she obeyed...
...order to provide for a few additional undergraduates in the Houses which were heavily over-subscribed this spring, the residence owned by the University at 11 Riverview Avenue has been made a part of Winthrop House...