Word: sell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each case, Webb argues, the party chose to support the minority against the majority. Then the party ran out of homesteads. After that, says Webb, "the Republican Party had no place at all for the farmer ... It compelled him to buy in a protected market and permitted him to sell in a free market with all the world as his competitor." Observes Webb: "Thus the Republican Party successively turned its back on one great segment of society after another, on the farmer, on small business, on labor. The party quit the people long before the people quit...
...chemical that kills "broad-leaved" plants while leaving grasses unharmed, did a fine job of killing sagebrush. The treatment costs a little more than $2 an acre and destroys as much as 90% of the pest. On de-brushed range, cattle gain 75% more weight per acre, and sell for twice as much as if they had to hunt grass among sagebrush...
...Italy, newspaper sellers were on the spot. If they refused to sell Communist newspapers, the Communist-controlled distributing unions might cut off non-Communist newspapers. If they sold Red newspapers, they risked excommunication under the Vatican decree (TIME, July 25) forbidding Catholics to disseminate Communist propaganda...
Before 1933, there was a negligible amount of publicly-produced power. The Hoover Dam had been commissioned to sell falling water, not electricity, to the private utilities. Under the New Deal, public power was used to bring electricity to markets that had been ignored by the private companies. Now the Fair Deal promises to extend the field and is brushing shoulders with already established companies. In most cases, public power drives out private companies...
...late years Cartoonist Arno, never timid in his technique, has broadened his brush stroke and simplified his situations ("I hate messing around with complicated backgrounds"). Some up-&-coming Arno types: the chinless, chestless little husband, and the ferocious, terrapin-eyed old girl of 50 who admires ballplayers ("We do sell them sometimes, lady, but only to other teams"). Arno likes best the gagless, slapdash sketches of clowns and nudes with which he has padded out his book, even hopes to hang them in a "serious" one-man show later this season. But he admits that he finds his fans...