Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grounds that both repeal or retention of the Neutrality Act's arms embargo might lead the U. S. into World War II, Herbert Hoover now proposed that the U. S. sell freely "defensive" weapons (pursuit & light observation planes, anti-aircraft guns), prohibit forever the sale of "offensive" weapons (bombing planes, bombs, poison gas, submarines...
...auction pit on the air twice a week, took microphones out on the range for farm sales, saw to it that the folks who turned out were not only entertained but fed ("Free Barbecue at 12 o'clock. Bring your own cups"). He offered to sell anything, from a manure-spreader to a mountainside...
...cover. "Honorary pallbearers will be men prominent in the textile industry." Inside the pamphlet the textile industry read the summary of its sins-a loss of $98,094,000 for the ten years ending with 1935. Said he, ironically: "Perhaps if we defend our privileges and rights (to sell for less than cost) we may be able to lose even more in the period from...
...insure the Plan's success. In the undergraduate mind the Plan is still associated with the notion of "study" which the Bliss examinations represented. Although these have happily been abolished in favor of short essays for the same appealing prizes, it remains for the Chairman and the counselors to "sell" Harvard on the American Civilization idea...
...price $22.50) have been the railroads and other sellers of its rival raw material, scrap, who have put the price up to $26 a ton (Aug. 31 price: $15.25). At $26, sheet mills are buying bundles of scrapped sheets which they must re-roll to strict specifications to sell for only $7 to $8 more. Rail mills are buying scrap to go into rail selling for only $14 more. Small steel companies, buying nearly all their scrap have already passed $5 of this scrap advance on to their customers, are unable to get enough raw material to fill orders even...