Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearings before the FCC in Washington was a ruling promulgated by the Commission eight weeks ago that had kicked up more fuss than anything in radio since Mae West. In permitting stations to sell advertising time on their short-wave broadcasts to Latin America and other foreign parts, FCC inserted a provision that the programs "shall render only an international broadcast service which will reflect the culture of this country and which will promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." Behind the provision, Washington observers felt, was the State Department's Good-Neighborly tact toward Latin-American autocrats...
Last week, when her application was denied, Mrs. Kaufman telegraphed Father Divine: "Newport is seething in corruption and politics. I own a castle. Kindly advise me when you can come." Mrs. Kaufman announced that she would sell or give The Castle to Father Divine unless her neighbors bought it for $40,000. She reduced her price to $10,000. Still no takers. In great agitation, threatening to "spend $100,000 to rip this city apart," Mrs. Kaufman took to her bed with a nervous collapse...
...noisily touted German synthetic rubber called "Buna." But the German product is made from acetylene (a product of limestone and coal) in five complicated stages and its price is around 60? a pound. Inventor Egloff estimates that his butadiene rubber, if produced in any quantity, can be made to sell for less than 20? a pound. E. I.. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s famed chlorine-containing synthetic rubber (TIME, May 6, 1935), now called "neoprene," is probably superior to butadiene rubber in some respects, but it costs from 65? to 78? a pound...
...invoke Thy wrath upon reprobate men who come to this city to corrupt public officials, buy and sell legislation and traffic in the honor of government. We invoke Thy wrath upon little men in large places who stoop to canny shrewdness to thwart the people's will and reduce the business of public affairs to mistrust and contempt...
...himself almost as much as did his readers. At any rate he was never sued for libel, shot at, even taken a poke at, in a country where editors' duels were commonplace. Bierce wrote the first realistic descriptions of war, was one of the few who did not sell out in the Gilded Age. But he came home from the inevitable English visit twice the Anglophile of any of the others. He dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy. What prompted him to walk across the Mexican border into mysterious oblivion, Author Walker does not venture...