Word: buy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1920
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Needless to say they are meeting with little success. The public stands pat on its refusal to buy at exhorbitant prices. The retailers can stick it out a little longer but doing business with more clerks than customers is not profitable...
What does it mean? No prophet is needed to outline what has happened. Materials and labor are higher in price; the manufacturers have had to charge more for their goods; but now the public has reached the limit of its patience and its buying power. Prices must be reduced, for if the public will not buy how is labor to be paid. To do its part in reduction labor can either offer its services more cheaply or produce more. So far the unions show no signs of taking either step. The return to piece work asked by the cap manufacturers...
...easy meat for skilful agitators working for their own ends. Trade must be re-established between Russia and the rest of Europe, and the Russian peasant must obtain food, boots, shoes, clothes, agricultural implements, and tools of all kinds in exchange for his product, instead of paper that will buy nothing, before Russia can be right again...
Thus trade relations can only be successfully resumed, for the present at least, on the principle of barter. In order to get Russia's grain, the trader must send what is of value to her, for money means nothing where it will buy nothing. For example, a certain London firm recently sent to the Ukraine a shipment of grain sacks worth one shilling apiece, and in exchange received for each sack, barley worth in England eleven shillings...
...National Committee has been formed to raise funds to buy the property, which is offered for $17,500. It is proposed to restore the house to its original form and equip it as a Keats Museum. It is then expected that Sir Charles Dilkes' valuable Keats collection will be placed in the house and form a nucleus of Keats material. For all these expenses and the subsequent upkeep of the Museum, the sum of $50,000 is considered sufficient...