Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alarmed by the number of women who had fitted their vanity cases with revolvers, the French Government last fortnight prohibited the sale of firearms to private individuals...
...paintings which went on sale last week were just the sort of thing that an elderly eccentric might be expected to buy: buxom ladies in pink draperies, sad-eyed St. Bernard dogs, angelic newsboys, Venetian sunsets...
...salad days Mrs. Henderson had a court painter of her own, a crippled Civil War veteran named Lucien Whiting Powell. Seventy-six original Powells were in the sale last week. His widow got two of them for $60 apiece, another...
...daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from 35? per lb. in November to as high as 51?. In December sale of butter substitutes doubled...
...business career has been lively. First married to Delphine Dodge, daughter of Motormaker Horace E. Dodge, he stepped in after his father-in-law died, persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the company to a stock-selling syndicate for $146,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street history. With his fat profits from the deal, "Jimmy" Cromwell sailed into the Florida land boom, planned to build a city called "Floranada," lost his money in the collapse, lost his illusions in a deluge of lawsuits. Depression infected him with Reform. He dipped into economics, politics...