Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owns today about 600 merchant vessels, 250 in active service. Its operating deficit last fiscal year was $16,279,369. For five years President Coolidge has been urging the sale of the Government's ships and retirement from such a poor business...
...Chapman company is not a shipping concern, but sells bonds and real estate, and apparently Mr. Sheedy, the principal promoter, is the real purchaser of the ships. It looks like a promotion scheme, and I appeal to the Senate to stop this paper sale...
Senator McKellar moved that the Shipping Board be instructed to halt the sale until the Senate's Commerce Committee could investigate. The Senate, always pro-government-ownership-operation on shipping, gravely adopted the McKellar resolution. Washington's Jones, the Senate's chief shipping expert, sighed profoundly. "In my judgment," he said, "the United States will never be offered so much for the ships again...
Tickets for the Dartmouth hockey game next Saturday night are now on sale it the ticket office of the Harvard Athletic Association according to an announcement made by C. F. Getchel, General Manager of the H. A. A., last night...
...sale will go on at the H. A. A.'s ticket office up to 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon. From then till game time purchases will have to be made at the Boston Garden...