Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legality of the sale of unfermented grape juice was admitted by Prohibition Commissioner Doran. But he was much less sure that Senator Gould had not violated the Volstead Act by making it into wine under the company's instructions, though it is not the Prohibition Unit's policy to raid winemakers' homes where no sale has occurred. Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League repudiated the Maine Senator as a Dry, characterized him as a "Wet-Wet," predicted his defeat this fall...
...Sale of Bamberger's to Macy's (the price was not announced) resulted largely from Louis Bamberger's desire to retire from active direction of his business. Said he: "I am getting old [74] and want to be relieved of active management of the business which I founded. It is a big business...
...school in Philadelphia and studied painting and interior decorating because she wanted to be able to do something. She had been trying to get in the film business as an art director when she took her first role as an extra. That was five years ago, in Souls for Sale. She has appeared in several mediocre pictures?The Auction Block, Tell It to the Marines?and in one masterpiece, The Crowd, which was directed by her husband, King Vidor...
...fish which, though frozen, are still essentially fresh, have the flavor and quality of fish newly caught. The Taylor, Birdseye and other quick-freezing processes have been important factors in the recently renewed prosperity of the fishing industry. Back in 1918, the fish industry was practically for sale with no buyers. Last week Secretary of Commerce Lament said fishing was in the soundest position of its history. Some 127,000 commercial fishermen catch three billion pounds of fish annually. The catch is valued at about $113,000,000. Chief fish landed in New England ports is not the famed...
...other 50% of Eastern Commercial Alcohol Corp. The purchase was to be made from National Distillers Products Corp., which also controls Kentucky Alcohol Corp., second largest U. S. alcohol company, and Old Time Molasses Co. It was also expected that these two subsidiaries would be included in the sale of Eastern Commercial...