Word: consignment
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...uncertainties. . . . The leaders of business enterprise are exercising every resource of ingenuity and hard work to eliminate waste and inefficiency. That the forces thus set into motion are now turning toward a new and prosperous era is indicated by a study of past business cycles. Miserable creatures, I consign you to a watery grave. Your doom is sealed...
...agent pursued his conquest, went in for details. He heard further from trusting lips that because Manhattan Customs examiners searched only one in ten cases of goods on their piers, Mile Salzmann & friends would ship nine cases of watches, one case of earthenware or bronze pieces, consign the whole shipment as undutiable earthenware and bronze. For their plan to succeed and the dummy cases only to be searched, corruption of some of the Manhattan Customs examiners was obviously necessary...