Word: selling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cuteness of rich, tieless old Lem Motlow who owns most of Moore County. In 1937, Lem Motlow wangled a law enabling him to reopen his family's oldtime Jack Daniel No. 7 bourbon distillery at Lynchburg. But not for 30 years, until last week, was it legal to sell liquor in Tennessee. That was due to the assassination of Editor Edward Ward Carmack of the Nashville Tennessean after the hot Governorship campaign of 1908, and to the piety of Tennessee's rural counties...
Only in the peculiar internal political structure of Poland is it possible today for such a coldblooded, unscrupulous, calculating diplomat as Colonel Beck to get away with his fast & loose international dealings. Even in modern dictatorships a Führer or a Duce must sell his people on accepting his judgments on foreign relations. In a democracy a Foreign Minister is at the political mercy of public opinion. But in Poland Colonel Beck is under neither handicap and the reason is that Poland is neither a dictatorship nor a democracy...
...blowpipe who can hit a bull's-eye at 100 paces. Over half the work shown was contemporary. That it was a far cry from the usual stuff sold to tourists was due in many cases to its ritual character, and also to the fact that Indians, sensibly, sell only junk at junk prices...
Mack and Groves had a new idea for Phoenix. Instead of buying up good investments at bargain prices in the manner of Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., they would buy up ailing or bankrupt industries cheap, cure them and sell them high. Celotex looked good to them and in 1934 they acquired common stock control...
Although Germany now needs lard desperately and the U. S. has a glut, it was by no means likely that a deal could be arranged. Last week several packers announced that they would sell their lard for cash only...