Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sudden manner with which the Countess announces that she has a book for sale provokes a faint smile of suspicion. However, when one has occupied the front page of a nation's newspapers for several consecutive days, one can do wonders, even write novelist in fortnights...
...recently contributed liberally from his veins to save by blood transfusion the life of Lieutenant Commander Thomas M. Cochran, ill unto death. The Navy Department issued an order to pay Smingler $25. Mr. McCarl overruled the order, maintaining that Smingler's act was a personal service, "not the sale of a commodity...
...appearance as soloist with the Flonzaley Quartet she played, for the first time in the U. S., Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's* (son of the great Johann Sebastian) Concerto in G Minor for Harpsichord and String Quartet, scored by herself from the manuscript parts found in the sale of Prieger's collection at Bonn...
Last week 57,000 tons more went overboard through the sale by William Averell Harriman's United American Line of the Resolute, Reliance and Cleveland to the Hamburg-American Line. This will give Germany a gross merchant tonnage of 3,130,713, practically where she was in 1917 and not far below her 1919 registry, which the Allies wrecked by confiscation...
...business affairs. German officials at Hamburg and other ports grew less affable to the U. S. agents. Yet they dared not hint their wish to abrogate that contract. At the same time Mr. Harriman was noting the low earnings of transatlantic carriage. Now it seems, from the sale of these three ships, that the Hamburg-American Line is to go more on its own, that Harriman will concentrate more on his coastwise shipping, mayhap resume his railroad activities. (He is a director of the Union Pacific, of the Illinois Central, besides being chairman of the W. A. Harriman...