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Word: sales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...splash of sunlight. Purchasers would appraise, make anonymous bids. If the sellers would not sell, a second bid would be made, perhaps a third. But if the third bid was also rejected the Law of the Sponge Exchange has it that the sponges may no longer be offered for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Demosthenes the Fortunate | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...sales value of rare books is far more than an alibi. This was never more startlingly demonstrated than last week at the Manhattan auction of the books collected by famed songwriter Jerome David Kern (Kalua, Raggedy Ann, Who, Old Man River} of Bronxville, N.Y. At that sale Dickens' Pickwick Papers (perfect copy, first edition) sold for $28,000. Fielding's Tom Jones (first edition, uncut, original binding) brought $29,000. Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (original manuscript of twelve chapters) topped the sale at $34,000. A total of 748 items brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Book Business | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Demands in the country at large are far behind those at Harvard and Wellesley. The "Prisoner's Song" and "Ramona" still have a large sale, but are completely dead so far as college buyers are concerned "Gay Caballero" is a best seller at present, but only two have been sold at Harvard and Wellesley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Gobbles Smooth Syncopation While Harvard Exercise Varied Taste--Beethoven, Ted Lewis Mingle | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

Graybar Electric Co.: Frank A. Ketcham, onetime stock clerk, to be President; succeeding A. L. Salt, onetime office boy, who becomes Chairman; following the company's sale by A. T. & T. to its employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Honors List | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...American Locomotive Co. at Pittsburgh needed a works manager. The Great Western's superintendent of motive power, well-paid though he was, concluded that, without executive experience, a mechanical man can get just so far and no further in railroading. Moreover, building engines for sale interested him more than buying engines and keeping them running until they died of old age. He took the Pittsburgh job, at a big drop in salary. The salary did not stay down long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler Motors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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