Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gained control of the semi-official pawnshop ("Credit Municipal") of Bayonne. By arranging to have the shop's jewels overvalued, by getting a letter of endorsement from the Minister of Labor, by persuading even the Mayor and Deputy of Bayonne to "cooperate," Stavisky was able to sell quantities of Credit Municipal bonds many times greater than the assets of his pawnshop. Furthermore, he sold them mostly to big businesses...
...food is needed to feed the proletariat, his sons are needed for the Red Army. Even collective farms have failed to turn the mulish muzhik into a village Bolshevik. Wily as any Communist, the peasants long ago wrung from the Kremlin permission to till personal plots on collective farms, sell their produce in the open market...
...everything was bright and sunny, of course. After the first four or five "frame-ups" and "sell-outs", the effect of the play's message began to wear off, simply because Mr. Blitzstein had cried "wolf" too often. The music was occasionally too loud, and the articulation not always clear. But these were only minor defects in a well-molded whole for which Directors Bernstein and Szathmary deserve considerable credit Miss. Mann's singing of "Nickel under the Foot" was delightful, the acting of Donald Davidson and Kendall Smith quite professional. By and large "The Cradle Will Rock...
...substantial ($362,000,000) Consolidated Oil Corp., Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair last week declared: "Either one of two things must happen. The price of finished products must go up or the price of raw material go down. I do not believe that this industry can continue to sell its finished products below the cost of raw materials...
...group of financiers forms two identical investment trusts, each with identical portfolios. After a market rise, Trust X realizes its profits by selling its securities, but Trust Y does not. Accountants therefore certify that X had a large profit, Y only that realized on dividends. X's stock rises on the news and Y's falls. The financiers then sell their X stock at a profit, reinvest it in the depressed Y stock. Then they order Y to realize its profits by selling its portfolio. When the accountants certify this profit, Y's stock rises, giving...