Word: selling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court order to restrain Publisher Stern from printing the stories before the trials. Said he: "He [Turrou] obtained this information while in the employ of the United States. He doesn't own it. He has it in his care, but he hasn't the right to sell...
...normally buys with internationally exchangeable dollars twice as much from Brazil as Brazil buys from the U. S. Coffee accounts for about 80% of Brazilian exports to the U. S. Later, however, the U. S. discovered another powerful trade persuader. In 1937 the U. S. agreed to sell to Brazil gold up to a value of $60,000,000 to steady Brazilian exchange. Also helpful to U. S.-Brazilian trade was a joint commission suggested by President Roosevelt on his 1936 South American trip, formed last February of Brazilian and U. S. business...
...amount of some products Germany can buy in Brazil with the "compensated" marks. Early this year she used up all the compensated marks allowed for buying Brazilian cotton. She then pulled an economic trick by buying 300,000 bags of quota-free cocoa with compensated marks. Brazil can easily sell her cocoa in a free world market for good currency. By this "purchase" Germany 1) tried to flood Brazil with compensated marks so that Brazil would be forced to buy more German merchandise, 2) tried to produce a temporary world scarcity, thereby raising the price of cocoa so that...
Nearly all the students are union members, but the school does not try to sell unionism or Marxism, merely endeavors to help students see all sides of a problem and learn how to hunt facts. The method of learning is reading and discussion. The Bryn Mawr school teaches its students economics, politics, English, dancing, dramatics, music. The girls go on hikes, are fattened on well-balanced meals...
...citizens pay two cents or more a day to insure themselves against hospital bills; that 15,000,000 citizens who work for railroads, public utilities and industries are already accustomed to having company doctors look after their accidents and ills; that insurance company agents are itching to sell health insurance to the populace...