Word: unsold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany's ingenious efforts to get foreign exchange. Total value placed on the collection was about a quarter-million dollars. But after the hammer had fallen all one stifling hot day amid a quiet, correct and much photographed international crowd, Nazi sellers were greatly disappointed. Six pictures remained unsold and returns on the others totaled about...
...losing up to ¼? on each yard they loomed. Cotton cloth output in March was 48% above the same month of 1938, while production of all U. S. indus-try was up only 24%. By last week, with the warehouses now crammed with 180-190,000,000 yards of unsold goods, the mills were finally starting to curtail operations...
...units was little more than half 1937's. But even this figure was nearly twice as high as 1932's Depression I low. And by the season's end the glutted used-car market was back to normal and only 90,000 new cars remained unsold, an almost unprecedented cleanout of the nation's 45,000 showrooms...
...unsound investments but only because of sudden market upsets. A good U. S. example was last fall's Pure Oil issue, a sound enough investment which failed to sell because of a market crash. If its underwriters had been an investment trust they could have added the unsold bonds to their portfolio, thus saving their own skins and not impairing the investment trust...
...projects, the one most lavishly encouraged by private enterprise is the Federal Theatre Radio Division. For none of its 44 series has the F.T.R.D. ever paid the radio broadcasting systems any time charges. Obligated to fill unsold air time with entertainment and edification, networks and radio stations have handed F.T.R.D. rich slices of the ether. Free time contributed to the project in two years is valued at more than $3,000,000, almost ten times the project's actual cost. And the project has succeeded in returning about half its actors to professional stage, screen or radio jobs...