Word: unsold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clothing business, as in the wheat business, the cotton business, and many another business, a surplus of products has piled up. In New York, for example, there are 200,000 unsold men's garments on the manufacturers' shelves. Until these surpluses are sold, explained Mr. Hillman, his Amalgamated Clothing Workers will not get much work...
...patronage in the U. S. Of 120 contemporary paintings, 36 were borrowed from museums, 32 from private collectors. Of 88 older paintings, 45 were borrowed from museums, 28 from private collectors. Nearly one-third of the contemporary paintings remained in the possession of dealers or artists: i.e., unsold...
...Street investment firms of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co. Last week these two firms offered 416,666 shares of common stock at $10 a share to a select group. By week's end some 75% of the stock had been taken up. If the rest remains unsold, the general public may get a crack at it at a slightly higher price...
...many opportunities to change publishers as they have invitations to literary teas. Publishers accept only one per cent of all manuscripts offered them* (including those of authors under contract), which means they are in the odd predicament of needing new books even while many of those they print remain unsold. As one of the few doing business outside New York's gossipy, interwoven, competitive publishing circle, Philadelphia's old-line Publisher James Lippincott was not anxious to have his writers speak at the Book Fair. He was afraid that other publishers would steal them...
That policy makes Texas Pacific Land Trust a unique investment among liquidating concerns: certificate holders' proportionate interest in the unsold land increases year after year. Behind each $100 par value of certificates in 1888 were 33 acres of Texas land. Today there are 114 acres behind the same certificates, and the land is much more valuable. Theoretically the time will come when the last solitary certificate holder will own all the land that remains unsold. But one thing will probably prevent that: The trust provides that if 75% of the certificate holders approve, all the property may be liquidated...