Word: sales
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...court thought otherwise, holding that a broker's license can be legitimately suspended if he is found either to have indulged in "panic peddling" (influencing whites to sell because a Negro has moved into the neighborhood) or to have failed to show a property for rent or sale to a potential customer because of his race, beliefs or nationality. In New York, a court held that discriminatory practices in violation of the open-housing laws can constitute "untrustworthiness" and thereby provide grounds for the revocation of a broker's license. In the other direction, laws giving homeowners...
...sale walked away the short man with the rubber face told the boys to "work your side of the street and let me work mine." Somebody else was not at all willing to take this and threatened to tell the policeman only smiled back at the group which was now in front of Holyoke Center. He seemed to be having so much fun in his toy house that no one wanted to bother...
Senate Republican leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois criticized what he described as budget gimmicks. Specifically, he referred to budget figures indicating that $5 billion will be realized from the sale of participation loans. Dirksen said that while this money is counted as income there is no balance sheet to show a loss in government-held assets...
...policy that determines the black markets. Cigarettes and firearms are two borderline cases. We can, as a matter of policy, make the sales of guns and cigarettes illegal. We can also, as a matter of policy, make contraceptives and abortion illegal. Times change, policies change, and what was banned yesterday can become legitimate today. What was freely available yesterday can be banned tomorrow. Evidently there are changes in policy on birth-control; there may be changes on abortion and homosexuality, and there may be legislation restricting the sale of firearms...
...legitimized needs careful analysis; evidently criminals cannot always survive competition, evidently sometimes they can. A better understanding of market characteristics would be helpful. The question is important in the field of narcotics. We could easily put insulin and antibiotics into the hands of organized crime by forbidding their sale; we could do the same with a dentist's novocaine. (We could, that is, if we could enforce it, the black market would be too competitive for any organized monopoly to arise.) If narcotics were not illegal there could be no black market and no monopoly profits; the interest in "pushing...