Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judges Victor Raynard Woolley and W. H. Seward Thompson (with Judge Joseph Buffington dissenting) went on to explain that "Transportation by the seller is a mere incident in the sale and necessary to its completion...
...them rile you. I know-I was a full-fledged long-pants travelling salesman when I was thirteen." A few years ago he bought a summer house to spend the winter in at Pasadena but got bored there, heard Santa Catalina Island was for sale and bought the whole place...
...Interior (Italy's Department of the Interior: Benito Mussolini), black-shirted, truncheon-swinging Fascist Militia raided bookstores, bundled all editions of the works of Gorky, Gogol, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and even Jack London into vans. Official reason: "Low-priced editions of these works have injured the sale of books by modern Italian writers. They often contain seed for Communist propaganda...
...badly hit motors, the worst hit was Chrysler. The stock had a year's high of 135, sold last week down to 52. Before the worst break, Walter P. Chrysler observed that he could see no reason for low prices in automobile stocks, considering current automobile productions and sale. Last week Mr. Chrysler pointed out that nine months' earnings per share were $5.50 (compared to $7.03 for twelve months of 1928). Meanwhile automotive bears talked of competition, saturation, production figures weighted by disproportionate Ford and Chevrolet output, saw no good in horseless carriage securities. To which bulls replied...
...Peoria, Ill., a drugstore advertised dollar bills on sale at 89c each. Four hours elapsed, many saw, passed by. A Scotch barber, on his way to church, entered, bought...