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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sale of the Indians bubbled on a back burner. Last week Veeck sold his Indians for an estimated $2,200,000 to a group of Cleveland businessmen headed by Insurance Executive Ellis Ryan. The sum was about $1,000,900 more than Veeck and his partners had paid for the club. Said Bill Veeck, when asked what major-league city he was planning to invade next: "I'm not even worrying now about getting back into the baseball business." But nobody thought that Bill Veeck, even with his share of the capital gains, could stay away very long...
Actually, Taylor owned two patents covering certain methods of using advertising matter on waxed-paper bands, said FTC, but "none of the licensees . . . have ever used [Taylor's] methods." In short, the manufacturers who paid royalties to Taylor "were unfamiliar with the nature of the patents...
Thus Detroit's Ford Motor Co. has had little direct voice in running the subsidiaries on the Continent, has been unable to control their manufacturing and sales methods, has been paid no profits through the Guernsey company since it was founded...
...deliveries of purchases over $5 and, like some other Woolworth stores, it has a "layaway" plan-a kind of charge account in reverse-under which a customer makes a down payment on a piece of merchandise, pays regular installments, but does not get the article Until it is completely paid for. The company also took another radical step (for Woolworth's) this year: it bought space in 325 papers in 216 cities to test the merits of nation-wide newspaper advertising campaigns...
Recruiting for the expedition after the wealth of Cibola was brisk, and the viceroy was pleased. Most of the noblemen who signed up furnished their own horses and equipment and paid their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray...