Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into buying the right to manufacture the famed U. S. Sikorsky Clipper 8-42. Because it well knows 8-42 is far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power, United Aircraft Corp. was delighted to get some $500,000 for the sale...
Across her block passed control of the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real estate empire, put up for sale by J. P. Morgan & Co. and a group of banks that held as collateral for some $50,000,000 of past-due notes practically all the securities the two Cleveland bachelors ever owned...
...great day for Miss Collins, who stood at her auctioneer's elbow throughout the long, dull sale. She tried to preserve the dignity of the occasion by sternly denying entrance to all photographers but scores of newsmen milled craning about the small group of men seated before the block. In that group were representatives of the bankers who bid to protect themselves. At a tall desk with clerks and calculating machines stood Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland Trust Co.'s vice president-economist who bid in behalf of Mid-American Corp., especially chartered last week...
...white-clad salesmen are spotless. For two days each spring the salesmen go to school. There they are instructed to bathe and change their shoes & socks daily, wash their feet with borax water, Epsom salts or ammonia. Each morning a salesman gets a fresh uniform. In making a sale he salutes, says brightly, "Good Humor, may I serve you, sir?" When possible he gets in a word about regulation-size brick ice cream to take home...
...what interested SEC officials the most was the sale of some $8,000,000 of city bonds, long since in default. As any money spent by the municipality directly or indirectly advanced Mr. Merrick's dream, Coral Gables Corp. often arranged for the sale of the city's bonds. For one issue the corporation paid the city 97¢ on the dollar, then resold the bonds to bankers at 92¢, pocketing the loss because the proceeds were used to complete civic improvement promised lot-owners. Another $4,500,000 issue, which the corporation purchased from the city for a little less...