Word: sell
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Your story clearly indicates by that the railroads' commuter service is, by and large going "steadily downhill." For those on the downhill grades I offer the following suggestion: sell rides to commuters for half fare, release brakes, and coast. Any excess kinetic energy may be converted to electric power and sold to the local power company at a modest profit...
Drought and Depression. By the time Hubert went off to the University of Minnesota in 1929. Doland was feeling the pangs of prolonged drought and imminent depression. Both local banks failed, and Father Humphrey was forced to sell the family home to pay his debts. Bankrupt farmers bartered chickens for their drugs. In Minneapolis, Hubert soaked up the intellectual sunshine, earned his board with a 15?-an-hour clerking job in a campus drugstore, and slept with ten other students in an icy attic. But after his sophomore year he went home. His father could no longer afford to keep...
Moscow's second big business deal of the week was more surprising to those who think that the Communists always put Marxist philosophy above business opportunity. Russia agreed to sell diamonds found in Russia through the De Beers Consolidated Mines, the powerful South African monopoly that Moscow has denounced in the past for "mercilessly exploiting its workers and artificially holding down production and sales to force up prices and profits...
...public hearing centered on House Bill No. 2173, a measure requiring the Metropolitan Transit Authority to sell the yards under limited conditions. The bill sets a minimum price of $2 million for the entire 12-acre property, or $4 per square foot if the land is divided...
Administration economists are dead set against trying to sell long-term bonds by gimmicks, meaning discounts, or by trying to force the Federal Reserve to support the market. They argue that this is simply funny-money financing. By supporting Treasury bonds, the Fed would, in effect, be pumping money into the economy, would lose control over the monetary system and take the U.S. down the road to real inflation. Says FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin: "The world now knows that, as the night follows the day, inflation follows any effort to keep interest rates low through money creation...