piece goods
Example Sentences
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They drained off food supplies, created inflation by "military yen," adjusted exports to Japan of food and war supplies in exchange for paper, piece goods and children's toys.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inexpensive needles, thread, piece goods, fancy notions, buttons and furbelows, even snake oil, but these were what the pioneers needed � the thousand tiny common denominators of civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cotton spinning of individual Gandhi followers was said to be seriously affecting the British cotton piece goods trade � In Japan, cotton mills were curtailing production.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1941, when piece goods were scarce, Kahn took a chance on Manchester.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fixing her mouth like saying prune, she just went on studying the piece goods.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
