Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distributed at cost to Argentine wheat farmers to wall in their sprouting fields. The dread locusts in the hungry hopper stage will come hopping into the sheet-iron, hop short, pile up in rustling drifts. Workmen will rake them up, burn them in oil or sack them for sale to the Department of Agriculture Defense. The dried and sacked locusts will be sold abroad as fertilizer...
Fear not the inevitable pun; if there is to be a sale, the Bookshop must announce the fact itself...
...James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler for $160,000,000." I think many of your readers will wonder that TIME should have forgotten that this spectacular purchase, which the same article refers to as the "biggest cash sale in Wall Street history" was made not by Chrysler but by Dillon, Read & Co., or by a syndicate which they headed, who then publicly marketed new Dodge Brothers securities which securities were among those more actively traded in on the New York Stock Exchange for several years before control passed...
...direct discoveries" and stimulate the production of "derivative discoveries" which established concerns can use in their business. One method of control would be to force the price of a new article high enough to pay for the manufacturing equipment in a few years. The price would impede the sale of the article, make new manufacturers think long before throwing something new into the market. Meanwhile old concerns with slowly depreciating equipment to amortize would have opportunity to revive, or to die gently instead of abruptly. But, deplored Sir Josiah, his idea of a referee is tenable only if all classes...
Terms of the sale were that a new company, General American Life, formed by Equity Corp. will take over Missouri State Life's business. A lien will be placed against the cash surrender value of Missouri State's outstanding policies so that policy holders cannot cash in on their policies at will. But all death benefits are to be paid in full...