Word: selling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cream Separators. If valued at less than $50, these dairy appliances are now duty free. U. S. manufacturers asked for a 45% duty, cited importers who bring in Belgian separators costing $30 to sell to U. S. farmers at $107. Importers objected, made U. S. manufacturers admit that U. S. made separators costing only $41 are also retailed...
...research worker for an industrial corporation conceives and patents a new device or process, the corporation usually gets it. But if a U. S. soldier designs a bullet or a U. S. sailor a boatswain's whistle, it is his to sell to the Government...
...there will be no longer any demand for mouse-traps." Pointing to the manner in which phonograph makers adapted their products to the radio, he says: "The pre-radio phonograph is absolutely dead. . . . The modern phonograph industry is alive and flourishing. . . . They [the phonograph makers] did not try to sell mousetraps when mousetraps were out of date...
Last week, however, Sculptor Epstein heard that 200 books elegantly illustrating the exhibition, designed to sell in the U. S. at $90 per copy, had been seized by U. S. authorities, sent to Washington, pronounced "unfit for circulation...
...logical step because, situated on the west side of Manhattan, many a Macy customer is a New Jerseyite and the two great stores were competing ever more keenly. Friends of Mr. Straus twittingly asked whether he bought Bamberger's with the discount at which Macy's aims to sell all merchandise...