Word: sells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neutra sell his modern houses to bachelors-they can spend their lonely Sundays shining up those miles of cold plate glass windows. Of course, as long as women are around, it's a limited market...
...Challenge. Hoffman first deftly disposed of some stock British alibis and delusions. For one thing, he said in answer to newsmen's needling questions, the U.S. does not have to sell goods to Britain or to anyone else in Europe to stay prosperous. For another, he admitted that U.S. tariff policies could stand improvement ("too many [Americans] believe that imports harm rather than enrich their country"), but he pointed out that, within existing U.S. tariff barriers, British exporters still had ample opportunities. The trouble was that the British had not tried hard enough to exploit them...
...Dying City. Despite Ta Rung Pao's complaint, Shanghai was well on the way to becoming an economic graveyard. Industrial production was down an estimated 50%, and still falling. "The Chin Chong Iron Works," read an item in the press, "is trying to sell electric fans for 30,000 jenminpiao each (about $12 U.S.), which is only sufficient to cover labor costs, but there are no buyers...
Mountains to Climb. Because Alberta has not yet solved the problem of where to sell the oil, it has more of an explorers' than a producers' boom. The province's 890 wells already have a capacity of 100,000 barrels a day, and are expected to up this figure to 300,000 by 1951; but they are actually producing only about 60,000 barrels daily, enough to meet the needs of the prairie provinces. As fast as wells are brought in, they are being choked back...
Thanks to Television. With help from Boyd, and such other horse-opera stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, one retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...