Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government contends that the profits from the sale of the (41½%) minority interests in the Ford Motor Co. to Henry and Edsel Ford in 1919 for $100,000,000 were underestimated by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the Wilson Administration. Hence, the Government wants Mr. Couzens, the Dodge descendants and a half dozen others to dig into their pockets and send back $34,277,253.48 to the U. S. Treasury. The defense attorneys argue that the Government ought to keep its word, having once placed an estimate on their clients' profits. The public will be deprived...
...long-yellow hair which hung down from her head. She was the Lady Godiva, and her ride delivered the people from a tax their lord had put on them and which history has told about. This month the village of Kings Bromley comes up for sale. For the last 100 years it has been held by the Lane family who are now forced to let it go at auction, with its Georgian manor house, its 13 farms, its 27 houses, its oak inn and its ghost of a lady upon a white horse...
...would show the money to Bartender Tammen in the bank vault. Soon Tammen was back in Denver with some of the Corsican's boodle to see what he could do. His first few projects collapsed. Then the old Denver Post, a fly-by-night sheet, offered itself for sale at $12,500. Bartender Tammen talked $25,000 more out of his Corsican friend and became a publisher...
...Bolton '05, of Cleveland, as a member of the Council to fill the vacancy caused by the death last August of C. Chauncey Stillman '98, of New York. Bolton, up to the beginning of the War, was associated with the Bourne. Fuller Company of Cleveland, in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. At the outbreak of the War, he went to Washington, first as secretary of the General Munitions Board, later of the War Industries Board, and subsequently as a member of the General Staff in Washington, and as Assistant Chief of Staff...
Tetraethyl lead (antiknock) gasoline had been declared safe for general use and been put on sale throughout the country...