Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points in this transaction the element of fair price and value is vital. German swindlers were proved, last week, to have shipped hops, coal, and seed in short measure to French swindlers who crooked their books to represent these shipments as full measure. From the ultimate sale of such goods the French Government thus realized only a short change value- a value whose spuriousness passed for long unnoticed, due to the immense complexity of reparations accounting...
...This attitude is shameless hypocrisy. Standard has proof that Shell did everything in its power for seven months in 1926 to obtain a monopoly for the sale of Russian oil. Shell failed. Shell invited all oil interests to refrain from selling Russian oil. Standard of N. Y. refused...
...Last fortnight, the vigilant New York World reported the property resold for $800,000. None cried "Graft!" But Tammanyites asked, "Who profited?" Joseph P. Day, whose reputation as a realtor in and about Manhattan is no less illustrious than Peter Minuit's,* had handled both the sale and the speedy resale. The question having arisen, Mr. Day announced that the resale price was $770,000. The question being pressed, Mr. Day agreed that the 10% profit should go to Tammany Hall...
...whispered were chairs, tapestried in stiff silk, little frivolous statues, the infinitely suave and polished paintings of Watteau or Jean Honore Fragonard. Last week, in Manhattan, snuff boxes, chairs, desks, paintings, tapestries, busts, the wide golden branches in which tall candles had once burned brightly, were offered for sale at the American Art Galleries. These?877 pieces which had formed the collection of the late Mrs. William Salomon, wife of famed Banker William Salomon?were considered to comprise, with few exceptions,* the finest such collection in the world...
...sale lasted for four days. The first three were spent in auctioning off the smaller, the less valuable pieces. A rich woman purchased a pair of Irish silver sauce-boats for $2,500; other collectors bought in card-tables, marble clocks, lamps, figurines, inkstands, door knockers, small sofas and chairs, portraits of French ladies whose furtive, lovely faces looked down with gay bewilderment at the solemn faces of antique dealers and U. S. ladies of fashion. On the fourth day of the sale the finest pieces were brought on the platform; the buyers, in their excitement, kept crossing their knees...