Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer growing more than his quota would have to pay a penalty of 25% to 50% of gross value to get a state marketing certificate to make its sale legal. Either buying or selling tobacco contrary to the state law would be a misdemeanor and would subject the violator to civil penalties equal to three times the value of the tobacco...
...Last week the French Surété Generale, on the obliging advice of Prince Louis II of Monaco, who seemed curiously well acquainted with the gang, pounced on one Hungarian and one Czechoslovakian with $440,000 of the Devine securities, when some of them were being offered for sale at a Paris bank...
...those who must fight them. The basic cause of war today is the world-wide search for markets for the goods turned out by industry. He who would eliminate war must bend his energies to eliminating that which causes war. And so long as goods are produced for sale, there will be capitalists, who, whether they like it or not, must expand or lose out in the battle of competition...
...Association for Legalizing American Lotteries, on which the Post Office took its first and firmest action, is headed by Major Thomas George Lanphier, U. S. A., retired. Of proceeds from the sale of numbered applications for membership in the Association. Grand National Treasure Hunt keeps 50% for expenses and 25% "for itself." Harder to win than Golden Stakes, Grand National Treasure Hunt involves eight cartoons, lists 30 song titles under each one. Winners, picked by a jury of "artists and song experts," get prizes totaling...
Since REA provides for no yardstick competition and many a utility company should profit by the sale of additional electricity in districts where it does not now care to risk its own money on transmission lines, power companies raised little objection to the Norris bill. Only serious kick last week came from New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., who feared that by lending 100% of the cost of such projects the U. S. would risk a lot more money than it would ever get back. Said this onetime Senator scathingly: "I predict that...