Word: price
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollars and cents," by fostering exploitation of the illimitable Labrador forests, whence comes most of the wood pulp for Canadian and U. S. news organs, magazines, books. Ostensibly Sir Richard is perfectly willing that the Labrador forests should be transferred to the Dominion of Canada-for a sufficiently stiff price. But the exceedingly harmonious relations existing between him and the International Paper Co. with headquarters in Manhattan suggest that Sir Richard thinks a stiffer price can be got from Wall Street. The blatant nonsense about merging Newfoundland with the U. S. is probably a mere advance guard of publicity...
...portrait has always remained in the family. But last week Baron Chesham, Lady Betty's great grandson, decided he could afford to part with it. For Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries offered more than $500,000 on behalf of an anonymous U. S. collector, record price for a Reynolds...
Typographers noted that Britannia is printed from slightly smeary type on thin gloss paper, the text interspersed with small photographs and cartoons (a few large) and the price six pence...
...will not be forgotten." Thereafter, little was heard concerning Sacco and Vanzetti; it appeared that one of the most exciting episodes of U. S. jurisprudence was not even to arouse the enthusiasm of artists capable of crying in a prosperous wilderness. Then, last week. Maxwell Anderson (coauthor of What Price Glory) and Harold Hickerson (piano-theory teacher at the New York Conservatory of Musical Art) aided by Director-Producer Hamilton McFadden and a seasoned cast, delivered a play which caused youthful Marxians to applaud for five minutes after the first night curtain, aided in their bravos by seasoned play-goers...
...Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 13 newspapers, third largest chain in the U. S. It was Publisher Gannett's third important buy of the year. The first, The Hartford Times (TIME, Feb. 6), cost him $5,000,000. Last June (TIME, June 18) he bought the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Price: $3,500,000. The Knickerbocker Press and Albany Evening News bring his year's investments well above $10,000,000. Publisher Gannett's newspapers are known as "clean," "wholesome" and "non-partisan...