Consequently, unlike other retail businesses, they do not keep a stock in hand.

Alternatively, we may allow you to destroy the wine stock in hand as if it were unfit for sale.

Some cautious millowners always held stock in hand, others bought as required.

It means giving salespeople in the field electronic access to every byte of information on orders, paper specifications, production schedules or stocks in hand.

With nearly 30 percent of Gold Fields stock in hand, Minorco needs only 20 percent more to reach the critical 50 percent level.

'At all events, you have the stock in hand to go upon for the present; and I will readily undertake to pay the doctor and the nurses.'

Like the publishing industry, the academic community is rapidly coming to realise that its stock in hand is not words on the page, but information, independent of its physical realisation.

Each report falsified our reserves of silk codes, understating the stocks in hand, overstating the demands for them, and presented him with a picture of a cipher Dunkirk.

Actually, eye couldn't see that far, because pressed shoulder-to-shoulder between the tables were hundreds of prospective gun traders, their trading stock in hand, all looking for that once-in-forever bargain.

With only 2.3 percent of Fabricland's stock in hand, House of Fabrics proposed a friendly takeover at $13.50 a share in mid-December, but Fabricland declined.

Sponsilier was evidently going to start, as his team was tied up and the saddle stock in hand, while the herd was crossing over to the eastern side of the Yellowstone.

Such a new issue would dilute Mr. de Benedetti's 18.6 percent stake to 11 percent and would probably place more than half the total stock in hands that Generale regards as friendly.

Valentino won't be replaced for a couple of races, presumably because with limited engines available this year Yamaha want to keep some stock in hand for his return, and freed from durability concerns they could then turn the rev limit right up.

Despite a run of small harvests, the cellars in Reims and Épernay were brimming, and it was estimated that had sales maintained their 1932 level, the Champagne houses possessed sufficient stock in hand to tide over sales for the next thirty-three years.

Due to its high standard of practice, the Madras government closed the civil dispensary and "handed over its buildings ,furniture and stock in hand together with half the amount of money allowed to the dipensary", to Dr. Silas Scudder stipulating only that an annual report be submitted.