Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great majority of Germans have always washed themselves with laundry soap-toilet soap in the Reich can now be sold only for the use of babies and physicians-but last week even laundry soap was hard to get. Housewives were advised to soak potato peelings in water, use the resulting mess as soap. Discovery that cellulose, used in making explosives, can be produced from discarded potato tops was announced in Berlin last week, caused the price of potato tops, hitherto not marketed but thrown away, to rise in Germany...
...years ago Hurwitz sold University Tutors to Mollie Freeman, who described herself as a "business woman who knew nothing about tutoring." Although Hurwitz turned over the ownership of University Tutors to Miss Free man the two schools continued to cooperate closely with one another...
Another type of bargain-hunting centred about movie companies which sold off on the outbreak of war because they depend on belligerents for as high as 40% of their gross from pictures. Last week, shrewd buying was anticipating new strength in movies on an offsetting increase in U. S. moviehouse attendance...
...leaf of flue-cured tobacco has sold this week in all North or South Carolina. Nor last week. Nor the week before. Tens of thousands of Carolina farmers could get no ready money. It was like the Midwest in drought time. Banks could not collect fertilizer loans or mortgage payments. Storekeepers were passing out pints of kerosene on credit...
...Anyone over 25 years of age," the returning instructor explained, "has been kept so busy by Hitler's various youth organizations that he is sold on the Nazi system...