Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennroad Corp. bought for $50.000,000 from Frank E. and Charles E. Taplin the controlling interest in the road. The loss of this key road is a setback to the Van Sweringen merger plans, which does not displease the Brothers Taplin, arch-enemies of the Brothers Van Sweringen. The sale also means that the Taplins have given up their aspirations for a Great Lakes-Atlantic seaboard system. Two days later the Brothers Van Sweringen gathered in a desirable pawn themselves, the Wheeling and Lake Erie. The I. C. C. authorized the Nickel Plate to issue $20,000,000 in promissory...
...First National pictures are Cinemactors Richard Barthelmess, Jack Buchanan, Cinemactresses Marilyn Miller, Colleen Moore. Irene Bordoni. Last week they heard that Warner Brothers, previously jointly controlling First National with the Fox Film Corp., had bought the Fox holding for $10,000,000. Reason given by Cineman Fox for the sale was that First National Pictures are silent, that Fox Film Corp. intends producing only sound pictures...
Sometime after the sale, a Viennese dealer called upon Dealer Demotte, told him of a diptych he had seen in the treasury of Zagreb Cathedral in Jugoslavia...
Cleveland. Postmaster H. A. Taylor of Cleveland sold national magazines in bundles of five or six (original value 65? to 7?). Bidding at the first sale was lively, 40? or 50? a bundle, then fell away to 20?. Magazines sold: Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal, Field & Stream, Motion Picture, American, True Story, Detective Story, Red Book, Home Beautiful, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazar, Arts & Decoration...
...powerful Katinka in a circus has a heart of gold but a terrible temper when annoyed. Ultimately the old story about the glass-eater is put in print. It is a poor finale, for this hoary anecdote belongs with the one about the man with the beard, and Chic Sale's The Specialist. No bedtime story, it finds itself uncomfortable between these stiff white sheets...