Word: shipment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radios to their sales list in the twelve American retail stores, in the hope that dwindling piano sales might be offset. But the high price of pianos has not been able to compete with the comparatively low price of radios and phonographs. Since 1924 when total U. S. shipment of pianos was 300,000, sales have steadily decreased. Estimated sales...
From the enclosed newspaper clipping and the photograph of the Earl of Feversham with "Shelif," taken at the Kellogg stables just before shipment. W. H. RATHBUN...
...world's leader. "Home Rails," long considered a prime investment, have seen the cycle bring Depression, as have Industrials. British Consols, once the "world's safest security" have depreciated with high interest rates. Last week's lowering of the Bank of England's discount rate to 5% and the shipment of $21,000,000 gold from New York were bullish items on the London market but could not compensate for the collapse in the gigantic Royal Mail and doubts concerning Kylsant, "Lord of the Seven Seas...
...order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the U. S. Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson's note, pondered its powerful conclusion...
...company is held by Bush Terminal. Inc. For the smaller exporter Bush Service Corp. will do, roughly, what is done for companies like International Harvester, General Motors, and Standard Oil of New Jersey by their own overseas selling and distributing organizations. Bush Service will assume full responsibility for shipments from the point of origin to the point of distribution, handling all repacking, marking, routing, and import requirements that arise en route. It will "provide adequate and reliable information regarding foreign markets and conditions" to its customers. By assuming responsibility for the shipment while en route, Bush Service will be able...