Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainly there can be no such huge sale of bonds until the dollar's value is determined. Who wants to give 100 cents of his money today and be paid back in dollars that will buy ten per cent less a few months hence? Today the dollar is worth about 62 cents in terms of foreign exchange. If it is to be depreciated down to 50 cents, the sooner it is done and the dollar stabilized at that point the better it will be for government financing...
...cars in the U. S. all but nine of them sold fewer cars in 1933 than they did in 1932. And all but two (Essex & Austin) of those nine makes are products of the Big Three. Although this growing ascendancy of the Big Three depended largely on the sale of more cheap cars, that was not the whole story. Cadillac and Lincoln, like other high priced cars, found their sales still shrinking, but in the middle and lower middle price brackets the big companies made progress. Pontiac and Oldsmobile as well as Chevrolet, Dodge and Chrysler as well as Plymouth...
...issue of Time, in which, under a prominently displayed Veritas seal, "The Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University Announces its Second EXTRA SESSION...especially designed for young men of ability..." One looked on with more cynicism than surprise when the H. A. A. took to boosting the sale of football tickets by subway posters, but one hardly expected to find the Business School seducing unwary prospects by magazine advertisements. Apparently its ballyhoo about placing all its graduates (as clerks in chain groceries) isn't having its calculated effect on the enrollment...
This unprecedented action was the result of an announcement made December 20 by the Corporation that it would apply for licenses permitting the sale of malt beverages in the Houses. The Corporation's decision to apply for licenses followed long agitation that began last April when the 3.2 beer bill was passed and continued through to its climax some weeks ago when several students brought wine into the dining halls and some Houses voted in favor of having beer served...
...week the wand waved again and the President decreed that all the residents of the Tennessee Valley should have electrical gadgets to burn up the excess current. By executive order, he created the Electric Home & Farm Authority to provide cheap credit in the realm of the TVA for the sale of electric stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, irons, toasters, sewing machines, waffle irons, etc. Appliance makers have agreed to furnish a standard low price line which will be handled by regular dealers and the private utilities. Dealers and utilities will discount instalment paper with the EH-&-FA. The RFC will then...