Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foremost of the deals Terry, Manager of the New York Giants, had in mind was purchase of Zeke Bonura, first baseman for the Washington Senators. Six American League clubs had waived the $7,500 price on Bonura. The Giants' manager was expected to offer Bonura a contract if Detroit, the seventh American League club, waives its claim...
...page pamphlet, complaining of the bad fare from which the "outhousers" suffered, proposed "that the outhousers may, regulating the supply so as to keep up the price, be offered for sale to the persons of quality and fortune throughout the College; always taking care that they eat plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table...
...small factory in North Cambridge, Emerson, son of Haven Emerson '95, six helpers are in the iron lung business and have sold over a hundred of their products, which range in price from $1400 to $1800. Into every lung go three automobile jacks, a Chevrolet shackle belt, and three Ford steering knuckles...
...Sunday night in January 1935 a one-act play about a taxi strike had its premiere in a shabby downtown Manhattan theatre. At its conclusion, a Left Wing audience put on the kind of demonstration that What Price Glory? had known, uptown, ten years before. The play was Waiting for Lefty, by Clifford Odets. Two months later. Lefty was running full blast in one Broadway theatre, Odets' Awake and Sing! in another, and critics were writing elaborate Sunday articles about the author. The Left theatre had become an exciting reality for people in no wise Left-minded, and when...
Besides its line of hearty staples, Charles began to stock delicacies high of tang and price-pate with truffles, cocks' combs and kidneys, diamondback rattlesnake. In 1885 it invented the steamer fruit basket, which proved so popular that Charles & Co. registered and still holds the grocery trade-mark "Bon Voyage." By 1929, with a list of steady customers that looked like a distillation of the social register, the com-pany was grossing some $5,000,000 a year...