Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head the new concern, that it would start with $7,500,000 of capital, that it would open for business Sept. 16 at No. 2 Wall Street. Unlike J. P. Morgan & Co., the new house will not be a partnership but a closed corporation. Capital will be provided by sale of $500,000 of common stock and $7,000,000 of preferred, a good deal of which will be bought by certain of the 17 remaining Morgan partners. But all the common stock, which carries the sole right to elect directors, will be held exclusively by the executives and employes...
There was no time for such an experiment. The mill bill was dropped as inexpedient and last week Missouri's new sales tax law went into effect. Promptly the State began to provide its citizens with means of paying fractional cent levies when all banks put on sale milk bottle caps inscribed with the State seal and labeled "Missouri Retailers Sales Tax Receipt." Those with blue circles were worth one mill in taxes, those with orange circles, five mills. In theory citizens paid their sales tax in advance upon purchasing these bottle tops from the banks. In practice, they...
Middlemen Cerf, Klopfer and Scherman frequently profess their love of literature but they are no fools. They saw that Story was getting no nearer to standing on its own financial bottom. Last week, in announcing its sale to Dr. Simon, they declared: "Story has grown out of the class where it can any longer be treated as a part-time interest." Mildly Editor Whit Burnett mentioned that the old owners had not given him enough money to expand the way he wanted...
...Robles soon persuaded the court that a Government commission which protested the sale to Mr. Quatrocchi as a characteristic Jesuit subterfuge was in grievous error. The Jesuit fathers sold their $520,000 headquarters for $485, explained Lawyer Gil Robles smoothly, because it had been "damaged" by a Spanish...
...Depression deepened, Candymaker Washburne's stores sank into debt, were closed. He dismissed his chauffeur, sold his houses, pawned his wife's jewels. Martha Washington candies vanished from public sale in New York. Last year, penniless, Mr. Washburne moved to a one-room flat. There he spent his days puttering with candy on the kitchen stove, finally concocted some sweets made of fresh fruit and vegetables. Each day he slipped out of the flat, went to Times Square. There he tied a placard on his chest, stood by subway exits selling candies made from corn, spinach, beets, carrots...