Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sale of Surplus Material...
...Secretary of the Treasury went into the public marketplace crying a ware: "For sale, $200,000,000 worth of U. S. promises to pay back in 30 years conjoined with four one hundredths of the total every year in the meanwhile. Buy, good folk! These wares grow rare: five years ago, $25,000,000,000 of U. S. promises to pay with interest were in your hands. Now there are only $21,000,000,000 of them left...
...principal speaker will be Joseph P. Day of New York, who is widely known as the man who has sold more real estate than any other living person. He negotiated the sale of several "war villages" for the Emergency Fleet Corporation at the close of the war. He has been president of the real estate board of New York and is a director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company...
...Brimmer Company is publishing, besides the regular edition which is to be priced within the means of everybody, a special "de luxe" edition limited to 325 copies, of which 200 will be for sale at $35 apiece. The publishers declare that no expense will be spared to make each of these volumes worthy of Professor Copeland's genius...
...translator is Prof. James Moffatt of Glasgow, famed prototype of Scottish plain living, high thinking, hard wor-r-rking. His was the first of many famous new translations of the New Testament. His translation of the Old Testament may be complete; but the book which Publisher Doran put on sale contained only the books Genesis to Esther inclusive?i. e., about half the Old Testament, the half in which most of the events and incidents of Jewish history are recorded...