Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seller may appear illogical, but the exemption of the liquor purchaser was not made carelessly, inadvertently. In 1918. when Prohibition enactment was being debated, Senator Hardwick of Georgia frightened Drys by proposing that pending liquor legislation should prohibit the purchase and use of intoxicants as well as their sale and transportation. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, father of the 18th Amendment, urgently explained that the Amendment, by prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, possession and sale of liquor, contained enough provisions to stamp out the liquor traffic. If no liquor were available, there would be none...
...fortnight's decision in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, clearly exculpating a purchaser of liquor from any guilt in the transportation of what he had bought (TIME, Oct. 14). Senator Sheppard therefore offered to the Senate an amendment adding purchase to manufacture, transportation, possession, sale and other activities forbidden under the Volstead...
Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan, to be completed in 1931 will be $28,100,000. Erected on New York Central property (Park Avenue from 49th to 50th St.) the railroad will furnish up to $10,000,000 toward the hotel's completion. Other funds will come from the sale of stock and an $11,000,000 bond issue, offered last week...
...annual Directory of Officers and Students of Harvard University for the academic year 1929-1930 goes on sale today at all Harvard Square bookstores...
...idea of "what music is all about." In the second place the number of students attending the concerts in the past few years has grown perceptibly. But these general observations are less stable than actual figures; occasionally economic facts are more digestible. In this case it deals with the sale of phonograph records; and the fact is rather amazing. At a record store in the vicinity of the college, of the total sale a little over a year ago, about ninety-three per cent, were jazz or popular music. At the present time the seven per cent, has risen...