Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seats on the New York Stock Exchange have not yet attained their record of price of $115,000, reached in 1920, but they have nevertheless climbed within reaching distance of it. The last reported sale of a seat on the "Big Board" was for $108,000-an advance of $5,000 over the previous sale. Moreover, it is said that $110,000 has been subsequently bid for a Stock Exchange seat in vain...
...concert is free to all officers and students of the University. The public may, however, purchase tickets which will admit them to the gallery. These tickets are on sale at Amee Brothers Bookstore, at 21, Brattle street...
...loud-tongued auctioneer addressed a vast crowd of official diplomatic and social Washingtonians. The furnishings of the home of the late Senator Frank D. Brandegee, who committed suicide last fall, had been put up at public sale. The hammer fell repeatedly as the public bought valuable furniture, Oriental rugs, beautiful books and a rare collection of paintings, etchings, prints, including many portraits of men of the Revolutionary period...
...should ape business. Orchestras should have labels, price tags; the labels should stand for quality. Jazz is a commodity, like canned food. It should be retailed as such. To carry out this theory, he has organized a company-Vincent Lopez Inc.-the shares of which he has offered for sale as a canner might offer the shares of his cannery. He plans to organize orchestras all over the U. S., to found a school to train musicians for these orchestras, to broadcast on a huge scale. Said...
...case was a bill in equity concerning the distribution of funds obtained by a foreclosure sale. The question presented by the transactions among the parties concerns the disposal of the funds resulting from the foreclosure sale. The properties sold were subject to four mortgages, no two of which covered identical security. The mortgages belonged respectively to one Ferson, to one Thurston, to Fortune, the defendant, and to Sexton, the plaintiff. The fund must be distributed in such a manner that the securities of the subsequent lieu-holders are preserved to the greatest possible extent...