Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand there is a ready sale of these ''jokers" to garages, gas stations etc. For this reason I wished to buy them direct and sent in the patent number, which was the only clue. The letter in reply stated that the patent (# 354934) had been issued in 1886 to Francis V. Raymond of Buffalo for a Beating and Mixing Machine...
...made a total that the worshipful minds of art students could not embrace. Nearly every picture was priceless, not for sale, beyond reach of the millions of a Mellon, Frick, Morgan or Widener. At the opening notables made conventional little speeches of Franco-Italian handholding. Their banalities could not obscure the splendor and magnitude of the event. Last week a tourist in Paris could see in a day in the Petit Palais what in any other year would have taken a summer's zigzagging over the face of Europe...
...With regard to the Daily Herald . . . its net sales are in excess of 2,000,000 copies per day, the largest sale of any daily newspaper in the world, and have remained so for the past 18 months. . . . It is receiving increasing support and confidence from the advertisers. . . . No further capital should be needed for the development of this property [which] may now be considered on an entirely self-supporting basis. [Applause...
...Hound and Horn," Kirstein frequently published Cummings, and if he were now a publisher, he would not be among the unappreciative tradesmen who refused Cummings' present batch, perhaps because they felt that, in these days of mounting expenses, they could not afford to publish stuff sure of a small sale and equally certain to cause wonder whether a grown man can really indulge seriously in the sort of humor peculiar to Cummings. If we may believe Laura Riding and Robert Graves, however, the punctuation and spelling characteristic of Cummings are not the delirium tremens of the type-font, but originate...
...print shows a rocky shore line, drawn with the master's delicate and pointed simplicity. Scores of copies of it have long hung on U. S. walls. Xaruto Strait, however, is now a fortified zone. Last week the Tokyo police, addled by suspicion, forbade further reproduction and sale of Hiroshige's lovely picture...