piece goods
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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
In Thailand, Japanese cotton piece goods had been virtually driven from the market by Chinese prices, which were as much as 15% lower.
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
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
Borgenicht worked in piece goods for a man named Epstein, then moved on to a store in neighboring Jaslow called Brandstatter’s.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
