Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...
Quick to follow up his advantage, Mr. Lloyd George-who won the election of 1918 by promising to "Hang the Kaiser"-placed on sale at sixpence (12?) a pamphlet called We Can Conquer Unemployment! Soon he jubilantly announced that "the first edition has sold out six times over!" In this palpable campaign broadside, shrewdly sold instead of given away, Mr. Lloyd George proposes to employ nearly 600,000 workers, "many within three months" on road building, house construction, telephone installation, "electrical developments," land drainage, reforestation, canal digging, and "in meeting the huge demand for British goods" which -the sixpence pamphlet...
...Joseph Duveen, international art tycoon, has emerged unscathed if not triumphant from three $500,000 libel suits. In 1915 Art Dealer Edgar Gorer failed to prove that Sir Joseph's opinionizing had spoiled the sale of a Kang Hsi vase to the late, great collector Henry Clay Frick. In 1921 Mrs. Harry Hahn of Kansas City brought a suit which only last fortnight came to a bootless halt (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). In 1923 suit was brought by the late Art Dealer George Joseph Demotte of Manhattan, which ceased when Mr. Demotte was accidentally shot to death while...
...Wells is like offering the Archbishop of Canterbury a handsome cheque for dropping a recommendation of somebody's shoes or soap into his next sermon, or sounding the Astronomer Royal as to the possibility of keeping the clock back for half an hour during a big sale. ... Its acceptance would be the last depravity of corruption in literature. . . . For ... an author to accept payment from a commercial enterprise for using his influence to induce the public to buy its wares would be to sin against the Holy Ghost. ... By all means let our commercial houses engage skilled but nameless...
...college men who actually continue in insurance work the rewards have been large. Many college men have become agency managers, and company executives; others find that income from the sale of insurance is high. Like any specialty, insurance offers large financial rewards to men who can really sell consistently...