Word: sells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CARE-which had started at war's end with a supply of two million 10-in-1 army rations-had sent 9,000,000 relief packages to Europe and Asia. This Christmas season, CARE offered 18 varieties of packages, ranging from the $13.50 holiday parcel (including one canned Sell's turkey, 8 oz. Swanson butter, 1 lb. Crosse & Blackwell plum pudding, 1 lb. Welch's orange marmalade, 1 lb. Sun-Maid raisins, 1 lb. Uncle Ben's rice, 1 lb. Co-op coffee and 1 can-opener) to the $10 layette packages (including 1 doz. diapers...
...been one of them. He knew the angles. Said he: "The Devil will come and bring you another bottle of smoke. You'll go over to Second Avenue and sell a pint of blood for five bucks and get drunk again before the day is over . . . Come and get God's help...
Addressing the Public Relations Society of America, Sawyer had some even kinder words: "We have passed the time when intelligent Americans use the word 'profit' as a curse," he said. "The idea of accepting a relatively modest profit in order to sell more goods to more people is one of the most progressive ideas in the world today. I will go further. I will say that this idea is the only really radical idea in the modern world...
When he grew more wheat or collected more eggs than the public would buy at his price, the Government's Commodity Credit Corp. bailed him out. That was all right during the war, when CCC, with $4,750,000,000 to draw on, could sell whatever it bought. Even as late as June 1948, CCC had laid out a mere $294 million. But in the 16 months since, CCC purchases-to keep the farmer's income up-had increased fantastically. Last week CCC President Ralph S. Trigg announced that CCC had tied up more than $3 billion...
...only recent flops have been in resort hotels. (He does not consider the Caribe Hilton primarily a resort hotel.) "Whenever you see an offer of a 'Hotel in the Pines,'" says he, "stay away from it." He bought the Palm Beach Biltmore, was glad to sell it for a net loss of $183,353, also lost money in a flyer in three Bermuda hotels...