Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the 1937 recession, shrewd Sewell Lee Avery's Montgomery Ward management and other big U. S. distributors subordinated profit margins to sales volume, ever since have bargained with inventory-ridden manufacturers to sell them merchandise at recession prices. This contrasts with the practice of many a small retailer who still sits on much of his 1937 inventory which is not yet completely paid for, and still holds out for pre-recession prices...
...Matched, two-piece cotton slack suits, now considered acceptable only as "extreme negligee" for beach wear, to sell at around $5 per suit...
Last month in Manhattan, parsnip-nosed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman launched in the U. S. the latest campaign of his Oxford Groupers-Moral Re-Armament (TIME, May 22). Last week Dr. Buchman sought to sell MRA to the nation's Capital. To the Washington Star he sounded off in the copy writers' slogans which, over a period of years, he has diligently worked up. Sample: "Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed...
Deposed six weeks ago as president of Seversky Aircraft Corp., volatile, hard-flying Major Alexander Procofieff de Seversky was kept on the payroll, last week was in Paris trying to sell airplanes. Meanwhile, the Seversky board, with six years of deficits behind it, met in Manhattan...
...still heads the companies that sell the world these many devices ought to be a multimillionaire, but last week three creditors filed suit to put him in bankruptcy. For, outside of manufacturing, Ben Bendix, now 58, has had reverses since 1929. Among them...