Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 50 transatlantic vessels still operating on schedule almost all were booked solid through September, their ballrooms, corridors, bars crammed with cots for which passengers eagerly paid cabin fare. In London one badly scared girl offered to buy her own bedding if a ship would sell her space anywhere aboard. Cluett, Peabody & Co.'s President Chesley Robert Palmer & family, who had crossed in a de luxe suite on Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, on the homeward passage shared three deck mattresses. To get ailing Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, his nurse, valet and physician accommodations, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy...
...Europe goes to war, U. S. industry, especially heavy industry, expected to be able to live briefly on exports, to sell its No. 1 customer, the United Kingdom, as much war material as her $3,499,000,000 gold reserve will buy (her 1938 purchases in the U. S.: $521,124,000). It expected to have another customer in France, with a $2,776,000,000 gold chest (1938 purchases in the U. S.: $133,835,000). If atop all this, the U. S. also goes to war, the U. S. economy would face a first-class war boom...
...farmers a "blended price" of $2.15 per cwt. (46½ quarts) for the nine classes of milk they sell to distributors, an indicated increase of 65? a cwt. from the July blended price. Top price in this "blend" is Class I (bottled milk) at $2.60 a cwt., a rise...
...Taxing the American people to provide a way to sell American cotton, wheat and whatnot to the British, Japanese or German people at much lower prices than we pay at home stinks...
Late last May the Federal Communications Commission terminated the experimental status of U. S. international shortwave radio broadcasting, put it on a commercial footing, by empowering it to sell air time to advertisers. This was the order that raised such a ruckus because of a censorious-sounding rider clause cautioning broadcasters that international programs must be designed to promote international good will. That part of the FCC order has since been suspended, pending hearings on it. But the official changeover of the stations themselves to commercial operating bases was last week in full swing...