Word: sells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vengeance. Actually, even among the farm groups, hardheaded farmers looked skeptically on Charlie Brannan's rabbit. From the farmer's standpoint, the suspicious part of the deal was that it would also give the Government more power to decide what farmers could plant, how they could sell. A limit would be placed on how many benefits a farmer would receive from the Treasury, but this, said Brannan, would really encourage smaller farms; it would hit only the big farms making up 2% of the nation's 5,800,000 farms. Thundered Vermont's Senator George Aiken...
...shouted defiance at Joseph Stalin's Cominform. They were trying to foment civil war in Yugoslavia, he cried. They were accusing him of doing business with the Western powers. Cocky Tito pleaded guilty to that charge. "Are we going to trade-that is, buy everything we need and sell everything we can-in order to buy imported machines?" he shouted. "Of course we will...
...against Labor. So far, in these elections, the Tories had gained 360 seats and lost 19; Labor had gained 69 and lost 362. This did not necessarily mean that Labor was certain to be licked in 1950. It did mean that Labor would no longer find it easy to sell Britons Sir Stafford Cripps's austerity program (see below) as the only true high road to a new land of pie-in-the-sky. In Berlin, where the news reached him, Herbert Morrison put it mildly: "The situation is difficult, awkward and embarrassing...
...tunghsi, or curio salesmen, find business rough. Their bronzes, brasswork and jade figurines bring only a quarter of the price they commanded last winter. One tunghsi man reminisces mournfully: "The mandarin coats-ah! We used to sell them for $20 apiece. When we ran out of real ones we went to the undertakers and bought up their supply of secondhand burial clothes. The burial clothes were even more ornate, and the Americans were twice as happy...
Last week, Doc Webb won the right to sell anything at any price he pleases. In a 6-to-1 decision, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the state fair-trade law was unconstitutional. Wrote Chief Justice Alto Adams: "The act is arbitrary and unreasonable . . ." and an unlawful use of the state police power because it stifles competition and tends to foster monopolies...