Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Register is at last on sale. Its belated appearance can probably be explained by unusual difficulties or something of that kind, but it is unfortunately true that by this time of the year its only possible value is as a souvenir. The Catalogue and the Directory have already performed whatever services were necessary; the Register comes out with a great deal of exceedingly interesting information with which everyone is now familiar, but which would have been of the utmost importance in November. And this fardiness of the Register is not a new thing; it may almost be called...
...February 14 the annual Valentine Dance will be held. Tickets, strictly limited in number to 500, will be on sale at the newsstand after January 21. If this dance is a success others will follow it throughout the year...
...proceedings were almost an auction. Manhattan offered $150,000 St. Louis offered $150,000 and 130 hotel rooms at reduced rates. Chicago offered $165,000 plus the proceeds of the sale of the concessions at the Convention Hall. San Francisco offered $200,000 flat. Manhattan raised the ante $55,000 (see THE PRESS) to $205,000 and promised to bear the expense of preparing the Convention Hall. San Francisco raised her bid $5,000, to $205,000. But Manhattan was pulling stronger. On the third roll call the hammer fell: Sold to Manhattan; delivery on June 24 next...
...American plans have temporarily balked Captain Roald Amundsen's projected airplane flight. The Norwegian had planned to finance his trip by the sale of motion pictures. The Pathe Company, when the Shenandoah announcement was made, stopped negotiations with Amundsen. Emil Henne, Amundsen's manager, resigned. Amundsen hopes to start for Spitzbergen in May with three Dornier hydroplanes now under construction at Friedrichshafen. If a landing place can be found at the Pole, he will establish a gasoline and supply base, hop back to the ship at Spitzbergen, and start out again with more supplies for the long flight to Alaska...
Following close upon the agitation recently made by members of the University faculty against the sale and use of printed notes before the mid-year examinations comes the announcement of the organization of a publishing company in New York for the purpose of printing and distributing broadcast printed notes of lecture courses on various academic subjects given by prominent college lecturers in the East...