Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken, white-haired old man staggered into the Chicago federal courtroom the other day to take his stand in defense of charges to use the mails to defraud in the $100,000,000 sale of stocks of the Corporation Securities Company of Chicago. Mr. Insull's excuse for the greatest of all exploitations of the American people is that he was following the "general attitude" of big business in 1930, backed by the statement of President Hoover that business in America was on a sound and prosperous basis. He further explains that he was doing no more in expanding than...
...price, however, was only one factor in the astonishment the sale caused baseball addicts. Joe Cronin was considered a Washington fixture. A San Francisco youth who won the city tennis championship at 14, his baseball ability attracted the attention of a scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1924. He played for Pittsburgh in 1926 and 1927, went back to the minor leagues as an incorrigibly poor batter. A Senator scout rediscovered him at Kansas City in 1928. In two years his batting average jumped from .243 to .346. After the 1932 season, Owner Griffith made him manager of the team...
Tickets will be on sale at the Union after Tuesday, and before that time each hall in the Yard will be canvassed. Prices on tickets bought before Thursday will be $1.50 a couple, $1 stag...
...Morrows as well as their ally Mr. McLellan suffered from Mr. Leavitt's verbal barrage, but heavier with the Federal referee weighed the fact that the chain-store's sales and profits were on the rise. Upshot was a postponement of the sale until next January when full-year reports would be in. Meantime McLellan stock began to rise from the low of $1 per share. By last fortnight it was selling at $12.50 and for several days was the most active issue on the New York Stock Exchange. These fireworks caught the eagle eye of the Securities...
...steel stand and 12,000 stadium seats will be for public sale...