piece goods
Example Sentences
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What Japan wants to sell is Japanese cotton piece goods, Manchurian soya beans and such.
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
This depression Mr. Knickerbocker dramatized thus: in 1913 exports of British cotton piece goods exceeded seven billion square yards; last year they were less than two and one-half billion square yards!
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
