Word: sell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charm in his voice of the highest rank of Brahmin, yet, on the same night, he could go across the Hill to the North End and deliver a spirited, rabble-rousing speech that would practically incite whole national groups to riot. There wasn't anyone who Curley couldn't sell in Boston. He could as easily convince the millionaire Robert White to leave his money to the city for health improvements, as line up ward workers for a campaign...
From the government's point of view, there was a hitch. It was impossible without special parliamentary legislation, said the Ministry of Supply, to ban one kind of slot machine without banning them all. A machine built to sell candy bars could just as easily sell contraceptives provided they were wrapped in the same package. Besides, said the ministry, slot machines of all types were an important item in Britain's export program...
...point. But the Conservatives, like their British opposite numbers, got down to political issues, charged that the welfare state had killed initiative. They cited cases: Norway's seal catchers lie idle rather than risk their lives for profits limited to 5%; berry pickers eat their blueberries rather than sell them and go up into higher income-tax brackets. Recently, with an eye on the polls, the Socialists dropped many of their austerity restrictions-"Like Salome," as one Conservative put it, "dropping her veils...
Under a quota agreement with the Department of Agriculture, a market price of $130 a ton was set on 147,000 tons of raisin grapes. To the same buyers, the growers will be permitted to sell another 63,000 tons if they can be absorbed at close to $130 a ton. The Government will have to pay for the surplus-estimated at 100,000 tons-at a top of $80 a ton, the bulk of which will probably go for pig-feed at $30 or less a ton. The Department knows that the cure is to rip up the excess...
...Federal Reserve Board's antitrust hearings in San Francisco against Transamerica Corp. last week entered their second year. For the past year, FRB has been trying to do two things: i) prove that Transamerica is a monopoly, and 2) force it to sell its holdings in Bank...