Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statistics, however, tickets for over 300 couples had been sold at this time, for last year's Jubilee. Yesterday, the committee announced that but few more than 100 couple tickets have been sold up to date this year. All who plan to attend this year's Jubilee must buy tickets either today or tomorrow. Men will be posted in Smith, Standish, Gore, and McKinlock Halls between 12.30 and 2 o'clock on these days. Opportunity to purchase tickets will be over with the closing of the sales tomorrow noon. It it necessary that all purchase tickets immediately in order that...
...Earlier in May the U. S. was producing 2,512,000 barrels of oil a day. This was approximately 250,000 more than the country was using daily. Therefore most operators had to take what money they could for their oil. Refiners at the same time were reluctant to buy more oil than they could sell. It is expensive to keep oil in storage tanks above ground. Prices have gone down, reflected indirectly in the recent reductions of gasoline prices (TIME, May 9). For the consuming public this situation is good; for the operators (including investors in oil properties...
...problems, the National Advertisers asked O. C. Harn to give them his ideas. He is managing director of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.), the organization that verifies a publisher's statement of his net paid circulation. Said Mr. Harn: "Don't be afraid to buy smaller circulation if the indications are it has the right kind of patrons. To drive for larger and larger circulations is only loading you up with a burden of your own creation. Publishers do not want to perpetrate this uneconomic thing of inflated circulations, but you force them...
Virginian Railway. At the C. & O. hearing last week President William Johnson Harahan of the C. & O. mentioned that he was trying to buy control of the Virginian Railway for $80,000,000. This is the 545-mile road that Col. Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil built to tap the soft coal deposits at Deepwater, W. Va. It runs parallel with the C. & O. to Hampton Roads, Va. Last year the Pennsylvania, through its subsidiary, the Norfolk & Western, sought to lease the Virginian for 999 years. But the I. C. C. said no. The C. & O. may have better...
...quite apparent that to offer for inspection all the priceless bits which the volume contains would be impossible, also unnecessary since one can do much worse than go out immediately to buy a private copy. There is no telling at what unexpected moment it may become valuable. Especially if the Boston Censorship Board take a peek at "A Ghost Story, in the manner of Sherwood Anderson...