Word: whatnot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would profit Germany to cut the export price on Mercedes cars or whatnot is explained by the fact that the subsidy would be paid in marks of which the German Government will always have plenty, whereas the cars would be paid for in dollars good anywhere on foreign exchange. With these dollars which, like all foreign money possessed by Germans, would be at the Government's disposal, necessary purchases could be made abroad of materials now urgently needed by Realmleader Hitler's fast expanding Army, Navy and Air Force. Last week in Berlin most businessmen agreed that...
...taken in the U. S. every year. The average photographer pays about 35? for an eight-exposure roll of film, another 65? for developing and printing. For $1 or less he gets eight black & white prints of his wife, his children, his friends, his garden, his sailboat, or whatnot...
Attorney General Cummings listened to these opening arguments, placidly chewing gum, tobacco, paper or whatnot. After Frederick H. Wood, in sonorous periods, had launched B. & O.'s counterattack, Mr. Cummings took the stand. He argued little about the law, less about economics, a great deal about horrendous social consequences. He told the Court at length that a great emergency had existed in 1933. He estimated that there were $100,000,000,000 of Government and private gold obligations outstanding. If these had to be paid back in devalued dollars, it would take $169,000,000,000. Cried the Attorney...
...soap in his little Manhattan shop 128 years ago. For three generations the Colgates ruled Colgate, their hegemony ending with the Palmolive-Peet merger in 1928. As late as 1931 the company was selling $90,000,000 worth of Palmolive, Cashmere Bouquet, Octagon soaps, tooth paste, shaving cream and whatnot. But profits dropped from $8,900,000 to a slight deficit in 1932. That was the signal for the return of the Colgates. S. (for Samuel; Bayard Colgate, 36, was elected president, and a management representing stock control stepped in. A quiet, clear-headed great-grandson of the founder, President...
...During that period the store turns the Paris gown, which may have cost as much as $1,000, over to its private manufacturer to make, say, 50 copies to sell at $69.50. The store is at liberty to advertise its 50 dresses as copies of Chanel or Schiaparelli or whatnot. Then the original dress is shipped back to Paris and the department store gets a refund on its customs. In Paris the soiled model is peddled to some small back-street dress shop which sells it sometimes for as little...