Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce Commission, after hot intersectional debate on his voting in coal-rate cases...
...March 26 the first assignments for pictures in the Red Book to be taken at Notman's Studio will be announced, it was stated last night by S. N. Grimes '31, Photographic Chairman. It is absolutely essential, because of the short time remaining before placing the volume on sale, that all Freshmen attend to this matter on the day of their appointments. These pictures of members of the class must all be taken before the opening of spring vacation...
...English poet, Frederick Locker, about 1623. There are less than 20 copies known to be in existence, and during the last few months two of these have been sold for $50,000 each. Harry Elkins Widener '07 purchased the copies of the Memorial Room collection at a Van Antwerp sale in London...
...corner exists when no more stock is offered for sale against heavy bidding for an hour or more. The Stock Exchange authorities then suspend trading in the stock and settlement is arranged on a "reasonable" price basis fixed by the Stock Exchange governors, usually near the last price of sale. This is a modern humane contrivance. Formerly cornered shorts were forced to pay up to their limit of solvency...
...before April 1, only $8.50 will be charged, a dollar less than last year. After this date, however, the price will be $9.50. It is requested that Seniors will begin now to get their measurements as there is always much confusion during the last few days they are on sale...