Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overwhelmingly favoring the prohibition of private sale and manufacture of war munitions, Harvard swung into line with national sentiment according to the result of Wednesday's CRIMSON Current Events Poll...
...first question, the results of which will be announced on Friday, is: "Should the manufacture and sale of war munitions for private profit be prohibited...
...special situations." At the year end Atlas' special situations included Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. and Utilities Power & Light, in both of which Mr. Odium is heavily committed. But Mr. Odium does not like any "situations" which involve control. Last week in San Francisco he finished negotiating the sale of American Trust Co., a $271,800,000 institution which came with one of the trusts he picked up during Depression. Worked out by G. (for George) Parker Toms, astute Atlas West Coast representative, the deal will give Atlas some $10,000,000 in cash, return control of American Trust...
...Addames House News Shoppe" directors ran into difficulties yesterday when petty penny-pinchers became so active that the sale of morning papers had to be stopped until the thief should be apprehended; the culprit is threatened with discipline if caught. The management regrets the brutal frankness of the action, but claim they are riled by the subtility of "the one who gets up so early in the morning...
...sire was Peanuts, his dam Too High. The combination had suggested to his owner, Mrs. W. Plunket Stewart, the last row of seats in the peanut gallery. As a racehorse, Top Row had appeared mainly in "claiming" races- minor events for mediocre horses in which each entry is for sale at a specified price, for which he can be claimed by anyone who wants him. In these his efforts had been so undistinguished that Mr. Baroni got him for the modest sum of $3,500. He took the horse to California with the rest of his string. Top Row promptly...