Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money which enabled Sir Thomas heroically to champion Music was realized from the sale of the world-famed Beecham's Pills. Sir Joseph, the first baronet, began life as a farm boy, ended it the "third richest man in England," leaving a fortune...
...estimate. Income tax receipts ($1,760,000,000) were 6% ($100,000,000) greater than the estimate. Miscellaneous receipts ($643,000,000) included a number of items not foreseen or predictable-$34,000,000 from railroads, $15,000,000 from "Army costs" receipts, $6,400,000 from the sale of surplus Navy stores, etc. In addition, the expenditures fell about $4,500,000 below expectations. These items made the difference...
Certain medical members of the British Parliament returned to London, last week, to murmur about a serum treatment for tuberculosis which they had gone to Geneva to investigate-the invention of one Dr. Henry Spahlinger. On the streets of Geneva, they said, posters were displayed announcing the sale of Dr. Spahlinger's research station if his debts were not paid. Despite this, he has rejected an offer of ?250,000 for his serum from a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm, because he feared the serum would be exploited beyond the means of the poor. The medical M. P.'s reported...
Some time ago (TIME, June 1, Page 30), a Southern gentleman protested against the appearance in TIME of an advertisement relative to the sale of Cellini's Autobiography. His peculiar case against the book in question was, of course, based on the grounds that the book is immoral, indecent...
Paris. In the sale of the Michel Levy collection, Fragonard's Terrace Villa Réals brought 275,000 francs; Farmhouse, 115,000 francs; Head of a Philosopher, 415,000 francs. Watteau's Étude pour la Famille brought 260,000 francs; Enchanted Island, 475,000 francs; Enseigne de Gersaint, 470,000 francs. Twelve still life canvases by Chardin brought prices ranging from 26,000 francs to 220,000 francs, while his self-portrait reached 126,000 francs. Latour's Portrait of the Painter Silvestre went for 140,000 francs. Per-roneau's Portrait...