Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submit the canvas that he considers most typical of his recent work. Though no prizes are given the show is not without its rewards, because the museum has set aside a fund ot $20,000 to buy pictures for its own collection. Almost all the other canvases are for sale...
...Since bread has been sold excessively cheap to Soviet aristocrats with cards,* the card system cannot be replaced by ordinary open sale without upping some-what the price millions of good Soviet proletarians (card holders) will have to pay for bread. To keep them from squawking, to prevent the abolition of bread cards from starting a revolution, there was only one thing to do: raise wages. Solemnly last week the Central Executive Committee raised, effective Jan. 1 the wages of millions of good Soviet proletarians, upped pensions and even scholarships. In generous mood it also upped the price the State...
Except for the power to establish post offices and post roads, nothing was said about the possibility of the Government's going into the field of private business. And it certainly never occurred to the Constitution-makers that the manufacture and sale of electric power in the seven States of the Tennessee Valley would be very dear to the heart of the 32nd President...
...waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power Co. stockholders who are trying to block the sale of $2,200,000 of property...
Last year many students received extra work clearing the stadium of snow before the Brown game. Others were given special work when R. H. White and Co. employed a large number of students in their packing department before a sale. Although it was impossible for these positions to be filled this year, there has been a corresponding increase of regular jobs for entertainers...