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
April imports of piece goods were reported as 165,000,000 yd. as against 215,000,000 yd. for April 1929.
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
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
Fixing her mouth like saying prune, she just went on studying the piece goods.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
