Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spots gradually. At first there will appear to be an abundance of beef steaks, veal cutlets, legs of lamb and mutton chops as farmers without forage dispose of their stock. But by 1935 herds will be down to such a point that stockmen will have much less meat for sale. Because of the Government's wholesale slaughter of pigs, pork will be about the scarcest commodity this winter. Where ten pork chops made a 1934 dinner, seven will have to suffice...
...Berlin tireless Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, found time to order the German Post Office to print an issue of propaganda stamps urging return of the Saar to Germany and put them on sale forthwith. To give the League Council pause when it meets next month, Dr. Goebbels announced fantastic plans to cover "25 square miles" with a stupendous mass meeting of Germans and Saar citizens whom he planned to bring in innumerable special trains to Coblenz...
...silver at a fixed price, silver brokers were out of a job. The news flashed to Wall Street, and speculators, thinking of inflation, began to sell U. S. bonds until the Government hastily came to their rescue with bids higher than the prices at which they were for sale. The news flashed to London and traders sold dollars on the hunch that the U. S. dollar was once more on the road to perdition. It flashed to Shanghai and hundreds of Chinese who had sold silver short spent a frantic night in fear of ruin. It flashed to Nevada...
...have a sense of proportion. . . . There are many things in this country of which the vast majority of voters are unappreciative. ... Is the Government not to have the right to have the courage to say 'This is a thing that England ought to possess' when it is offered for sale? . . . The British Museum is a public body under Parliamentary control. To say that the Government ought not to hand over this money to the British Museum is ridiculous...
...effects of drought. Last week futures were selling at 97¢ to $1.05, spot at $1.12. Liverpool traders were more complacent: early reports on the Canadian crop had been favorable and Argentina, ignoring her export quota fixed at the London Wheat Conference last August, had plenty of wheat for sale. The Liverpool price at the end of May was around 72¢. Not until mid-June, when drought news from Canada became alarming, did Liverpool traders begin to push the price. October wheat at Liverpool last week reached 86¢. Some U. S. speculators were proclaiming last week that in the domestic market...