Word: sale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Announced by Secretary Steve Early was the President's decision that he was powerless to overrule Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes' refusal to allow the sale of 17,000,000 cubic feet of helium to Germany...
Whitney-bred, Du Pont-owned Dauber, a grandson of famed Man o' War, was a thoroughly acceptable winner of last week's $69,000 Preakness Stakes, the toniest and richest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds this year. Purchased at the dispersal sale of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's famed stable last November, Dauber had not won a stake race this year for his new owner, William du Pont Jr., horsiest member of the Wilmington clan...
...Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.) wanted an amendment that would dot U. S. highways with frequent comfort stations. Opposition came from two Democratic Congressmen, Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas, but the clause was passed, 40-38. Said Congressman Fuller: "Whether they are the Chic Sale kind or the kind that the gentleman from Michigan wrote into this bill, we ought to limit the size. We ought to know whether they will build them for one or two or three or for the whole neighborhood. ... If there is any place in the country where they need...
...writes weighty essays on modern poetry and highbrow fiction, once took a critic's holiday and made a searching analysis of the works of Zane Grey in The Saturday Review of Literature. At that time the prolific Western-story writer had turned out 33 books, with a total sale of about 10,000,000 copies. After thoughtfully picking them to little bits, Professor Whipple concluded that their enormous popularity did not constitute a serious reflection on U. S. taste. Zane Grey's tireless riders of the purple sage, lone star rangers and wanderers of the wasteland, he decided...
Tickets for the "Alcestis" are now on at the Harvard Coop, Leavitt and sale and may be procured at the Herrick, Burke, and Tyson ticket agencies; Pierce's and by application to the Poet's Theatre, at Phillips Brooks House...