Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Mr. Eumorfopoulos' funds have lately been running a little low, he arranged with the Victoria & Albert and British Museums to buy some of his art collection for half a million dollars. The sale Curator Hobson considered a rare bargain. "It was truly a princely gesture on the part of Mr. Eumorfopoulos," said he last week. "It is impossible to estimate the value of some of the pieces, but the collection might easily amount to ?500,000." The next great international exhibition at the Royal Academy's Burlington House will be of Chinese art, scheduled for next winter...
...favor of liquidating the business of the company, distributing its assets among the stockholders. No one moved or spoke when the announcement was made. Then President Lennihan rose to assure those present that the directors would do their best to prevent a hasty sale of the plant, would try to dispose of it as a unit. That night nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge crawled into bed with nothing to look forward to but the dole...
...Censor Herbert L. McNary to New York to see Within the Gates.* Censor McNary returned with so unfavorable a report on Within the Gates's indecencies that Mayor Mansfield last week not only forbade the performance of the drama but declared he would take steps to prevent the sale of the play in book form. "Nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut," cried...
...Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units of an industry on a fair competitive level in so far as labor costs are concerned, they do not prevent destructive price cutting in the sale of commodities produced, any more than a fixed price of material or other element of cost would prevent it. Destructive competition at the expense of employes is lessened, but it is left in full swing against the employer himself and the economic soundness of his enterprise...
Tickets for President Roosevelt's Second Annual Birthday Ball will go on sale in the Union and in the Houses today, it was announced last night. The tickets are priced...