Word: unsold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week opened, the Lenten season demand for fresh fish forced the price of haddock above the union's minimum, brought about a temporary truce between the fishermen and boat-owners. But much of last week's unsold catch was condemned by the state health inspector, sold for fish meal and fertilizer. Price...
John O. Cate, manager of the S. S. Pierce rum refectory, has been conducting a sale of that West Indian brew for the last week. "Harvard men like scotch," he sighed, looking at the unsold rum, "but they will respond to Southern Comfort as well as General Grant...
...Opera Ball in Chicago. Chicagoans were not charmed by a Maxwell column, six weeks before the date, which remarked: "It is hard to persuade these rather timid, frightened Chicagoans to come as Rigolettos and Carmens, but I think they will see the light. . . ." Tickets went unsold at $50 a couple, then went unsold at $25. The project was sunk without a trace. Miss Maxwell's last words: "For some curious reason, which is quite inexplicable to me, apparently the public did not want to come...
...four miles at Omaha waiting to unload; drivers had to turn hoses on their stock to keep it from dying in the hot sun. As wholesale meat stocks rose to 80% of the wartime average, packers shied away from high prices. Result: 4,000 high-priced hogs remained unsold one day at Chicago's Union Stockyards and wholesale meat prices started down, though they were still well above OPA ceilings. Retail prices, which had generally been in the black-market stratosphere, started down too. By week's end, they were beginning to level under June's black...
...Unsold Case. The U.S. negotiators had not wanted to turn the screws on the British. Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson and Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton sympathetically understood the British case, wanted to give Britain the best deal possible...