Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sale was largely inspired by the success of Naughty Marietta (TIME, April 1, 1935) which served as the first important cinema vehicle for Baritone Nelson Eddy, whose concert audiences have been clamoring ever since for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. Hollywood had barely tapped the Herbert catalog before. It used The Fortune Teller as a Spanish short to display the negligible talents of Enrico Caruso Jr. The Red Mitt plot served Marion Davies once in the days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced...
...Nonsense." Fretful and fidgety grew Dr. Townsend as, on the second day of questioning, committeemen tried to pin him down to the details of his Plan. He conceded that a transactions tax to raise pensions funds would involve the licensing of every farmer, collection of a tax on every sale from a dozen eggs to a bale of cotton. Had he ever pointed that out to his rural followers...
...efforts of the League of Nations to reduce the sale and use of narcotics throughout the world is one of the rare activities of the League in which the U. S. takes a willing, effective part. Last week when the League of Nations' Opium Advisory Committee met in Geneva to deplore the state of narcotic affairs, Stuart Jamieson Fuller, U. S. spokesman, rose with special pride to report about the thoroughgoing efforts U. S. citizens are making to discover some drug which deadens pain as effectively as does morphine but creates no morphine-like habit...
...volume is made up of trading in standard stocks with a State Street flavor. The Chicago Stock Exchange ranks fourth, the San Francisco Stock Exchange fifth. Smallest registered market is the New York Real Estate Securities Exchange, where, during the depth of Depression, days would pass without a single sale. Typical little stockmarkets are the following...
Alka-Seltzer's A. H. Beardsley worried about cut-rate drugstores, said he circumvented them by selling his medicine only on consignment for sale at his own price...