piece goods

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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

Boldly the supervisor ordered seized vast quantities of smuggled Japanese and Korean imports, which include rice, bean-cake, bean-oil, cotton piece goods, sugar and cement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Severely affected were Japanese mills which used to export large quantities of cheap piece goods to India.

From Time Magazine Archive

Japan, during Depression, secured virtually the whole of Ethiopia's import business in cotton piece goods, while Italians were supplying Haile Selassie with a powerful radio station at cut rates.

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