Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee, headed by Alabama's Hugo La Fayette Black, declared that private operation with Federal aid "has resulted in a Saturnalia of waste, inefficiency, unearned exorbitant salaries and bonuses and other forms of so-called 'compensation,' corrupting expense accounts, exploitation of the public by the sale and manipulation of stocks, the 'values' of which are largely based on the hope of profit from robbing the taxpayer...
...time. If they succeed, it is a practical certainty that the next year or so will see them buying into another city. They have long been surveying the field, have in their files a complete detailed index about almost every newspaper in the U. S. that might be for sale. With 30 years of active publishing ahead of them, with William Randolph Hearst settling into old age, with Scripps & Howard in their prime, the youthful Brothers Cowles of Iowa may yet step out as one of the great chain newspaper publishers of tomorrow...
Next day Mr. Jones came suddenly to life. He would, he said, be glad to receive a process server any time, because now he intended to challenge in a New York Federal Court SEC's right to subpoena him or to regulate the issuance and sale of his securities. Cried the blond oil royalist...
...small way by putting the signatures of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (his favorite characters) on the fly leaves of old books. As his skill grew, so did his audacity. To make detection more difficult, most of the Spring forgeries were sent to England and Canada for sale and circulation. Because Britain was still sentimentally fond of the Confederate States, Forger Spring invented a new character, a respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, only daughter of General '"Stonewall" Jackson. For years Miss Fanny's precarious finances induced her to part with a great flood of letters...
...power scheduled for delivery in the next few months. That meant that the Hepburn bluff-if bluff it was-was going to be played to the last card. Hydro's announcement, however, was made just a few days before a $15,000,000 Ontario loan went on sale. And in Toronto last week, when officials in the Parliament Buildings opened the box where bond tenders are dropped, not a bid was found at any price...