Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possessions. They were ordered to pay on such goods as jewelry, furs and furniture, an export tax of 100%. A further decree barred German dealers from bidding on goods auctioned by non-Aryans, and provided that if a Jew, having failed to sell goods at auction, offers them for sale a second time but fails to find a private buyer, they should automatically be forfeited to the State. Why the Nazis went to this length was not apparent, since it would have been more in accord with Aryan forthrightness simply to order Jews to stay and starve or emigrate naked...
...will have ready for sale 100,000 People's Radios at 35 marks ($14) each. This is cheap for a good small set in Europe, where the price of radios is everywhere so high that people continue to use antique models. "We now have 9,500,000 radio sets*-which is 5,500,000 more than before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor," declared Dr. Goebbels. "Now, with the new People's Radio, we shall become the greatest radio country in the world!" Technicians who have inspected the People's Radio say it has been designed to give poor...
...Francisco, one-eyed Housepainter Charles T. Ketterman saw newspaper accounts of cornea transplantations to restore sight (see p. 20). Instead of trying to buy a cornea to repair his blind eye, he offered for sale the cornea of his one sound eye. His price: $1,500. His reason: "I have seen enough misery...
...went wading in a Kansas City flood. Slight, bespectacled President Thomas B. Hudson of The Polymerization Process Corp., Phillips Pete's favorite offspring, answers to "Tubby." This nicknamed outfit last week registered $25,000,000 in debentures with SEC. Wall Street was sure they would have an easy sale-for in polymerization, Phillips Pete is fathering the latest technique in gasoline manufacture...
London's general manager, Solomon W. Pitchenik, wrote New Jersey's Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett to ask what rules governed the sale of the eerie dessert. Last week. Commissioner Burnett promptly banned its manufacture and sale because "liquorized ice cream is attractive to children." But Distiller Pitchenik is not interested in the child market, still hopes to get his dish onto hotel and night-club menus, where it would be served in place of a cordial, act as a "combination of cocktail and dessert," contain all the elements of both "with the ingredients...