Word: selling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news that Catholic War Minister Karl Vaugoin openly advocates the proclamation of a Fascist Dictatorship, while Communist Otto Bauer, onetime Foreign Minister, is quite as eager to proclaim a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Finally there is not space in which to note that Wall Street is inclined to sell distinctly short on Austria-as is shown by the fact that it has recently proved impossible for the Government at Vienna to borrow in Manhattan $100,000,000 urgently needed to revamp Austria's state railways, telegraphs, telephones...
...economic question was a masterpiece. It was the outcome of a new and better outlook on life. Therein lay its creative merit. But now-much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady horse-trading deal and it may take a long time to sell the horse, if it is sold at all." Obviously nothing was accomplished, last week, in an atmosphere so surcharged, and soon the famed yacht Corsair was off on a little cruise in Venetian waters with her owner, Mr. Morgan...
...Chicago, White Hozie, Negro truck driver for the Aristo Floral Co., attempted to sell some flowers, was arrested. They had been picked by him from graves in the Bohemian National Cemetery...
Such commercial traffic has dangers. It cannot be closely supervised. Many a blood seller is diseased, many a one sells too often. It takes four to five weeks for such to replace their lost blood properly to provide for another transfusion. A doctor sometimes needs a donor in a hurry and has no time to make thorough blood tests and counts. He must rely on a seller's word, and many a man who will sell blood for a living will tell lies...
Some years back, when George Leon Loft, son of George W. Loft, famed "penny-a-pound-profit" candyman, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he appeared on the trading floor in a smart new spring suit. Knowing his reputation for being ready to buy or sell anything, friends of Mr. Loft surrounded him and began to auction off the suit. When the price reached $100, George said "sold." Into a telephone booth he stepped, removed the suit, tossed it out to the purchaser, remained in seclusion until another suit was brought from his home...