Word: sell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the swarming Pearl River Bund flashed U.S.-patterned advertisements using scantily clad, busty female forms to sell everything from cosmetics to waterproof wristwatches. Farther uptown, smartly dressed taxi dancers helped tired Chinese and foreign businessmen while away their evenings at California-style restaurants and cabarets to the strains of Rum Boogie and Springtime in the Rockies...
...farmers live about as well as before the war," said Kenjo Otsuka, a short, grinning ex-soldier of 31, "and former tenants live better than they did. But the price of what we sell has not kept up with the price of what we buy." A koku (about five bushels) of rice, which before the war sold for $8, now sells for $14. The bicycle that every farmer needs has risen from...
Traders swarmed into the corn-futures pit waving orders to sell. The selling deluge quickly spread to wheat, oats and rye. Prices tumbled. By week's end, cash corn had dropped 16? to $1.23 a bushel, lowest price in three years. May wheat, worth $3.06 before the 1948 break, slipped down to $2.17, and September futures dropped...
Farmers and traders, who had thought that grain prices had hit bottom because they were at Government-support levels, were fooled; the artificial props could not support the weight of the glut. For various reasons, including lack of storage space, farmers had been forced to sell below support levels. Cash corn was down 36? below the support level; September wheat, 19?. Said one trader: "It looks as if the Government may have bitten off more than it can chew...
...cutting out free meals, Western Air Lines cut plane fares 5% last week. Other lines planned more drastic rate reductions. Northeast Airlines hopes soon to sell all unreserved and "no-show" seats at ⅓ discount. Pan American Airways, which had cut fares 44% with its coach service to Puerto Rico, will introduce a similar service to Buenos Aires in a month. Pan Am's coach passengers will travel 52 to a DC-4 (as against the first class 30), and get only simple meals. But they will pay $169.50 less than the present New York-Buenos Aires round-trip...