Word: price
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James L. Price, secretary of the Boston "Red Sox" baseball team; by suicide (razor); in Fenway Baseball Park, Boston...
...seller: Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. The buyer: Frederick Brown, realtor. The price: circa $6,000,000. The Hippodrome's fate: presumably to be demolished, a fraternal organization's Manhattan home to be built on the site...
...March, 1928, John Jacob Raskob announced that General Motors should rise to 15 times its earnings-per-share, and the "15X" formula has become generally accepted with regard to industrials. Meanwhile, however, during the November bull market, many a stock rose far beyond the "15X" valuation, reached a price which could be justified by earnings only through the expedient of discounting possible earnings for two or three years to come...
Another book in the Kerne collection which brought a high price was one of the first editions of Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". The duplicate of this volume which sold for $11,000 in New York, is now on exhibition in the University library. Still another duplicate of the New York sale now being exhibited in Widener is a copy of the first edition of "The Scarlet Letter". This volume brought $1,175 in New York, chiefly because of Hawthorne's autograph on the frontispiece. The Widener volume, however, not only has an autograph, but a word of greeting written...
...exhibition in the Memorial Room is a copy of "Beauty and the Beast". This book is illustrated with high colors, every two or three pages containing a bright plate. The copy sold in the New York sale did not contain as many illustrations, yet brought a very high price...