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Word: sales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Ketcham Bill instructing the Department of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information on agricultural production, competition and demand in foreign countries, to promote the sale of American farm products abroad, and to enable the American farmer to adjust his crops to world needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Apr. 28, 1924 | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...outlying estate upon which 50,000 people live, many castles, a park and other properties. The whole estate is worth considerably more than a million dollars. Prince Helie, who inhabits an aesthetic pink marble house on the Boulevard du Bois de Boulogne in Paris said when questioned about the sale: "See the treasurer of my household. ... I occupy myself with nothing concerning the sale. My Berlin agents receive offers in my name. The French and German Governments doubtless will have to give their assent to the sale, which will be a pure formality. I shall have to intervene only when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Sale | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...Quai d'Orsay, French Foreign Office, said: "It is a long time since the feudal laws under which such principalities were administered were abolished. We are no more concerned with this sale than with any real estate transaction on the boulevards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Sale | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...American Princess emphatically stated that the title of "Prince" is not to be sold with the property. Charles Maurice Pierre Jason Howard, her son by Prince Helie, will one day become Prince de Sagan, no matter what happens to the property now for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Sale | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...autograph sale in Paris, it became known that Premier Poincare had signed his name so often during his 63 years that his autographs would not fetch as much as $2 apiece. Benito Mussolini's signature, however, fetched almost $6, while Kipling's brought nearly as much as Napoleon's, at about $19. But the autograph of Nietzsche surpassed them all, an admirer buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Apr. 28, 1924 | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

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