Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...licenses and quotas. He further expressed the hope that the Disarmament Conference will agree upon a "much more far-reaching" arms control than the mere supervision provided in the 1925 convention. In addition an emergency Administration resolution was introduced in the Senate authorizing the President to embargo the sale of U. S. arms and munitions in the Chaco conflict. A $10,000 fine or two years in jail was made the penalty for violating the embargo. Other Countries stepped into line. Chile, who had just received disturbing news that many of her own retired army officers were being recruited...
...against only five (74,000 tons) of U. S. registry, today the proportion is nine (120,000 tons) foreign ships to 35 (385,000 tons) U. S. ships and, Mr. Franklin testified, its nine foreign ships-Belgen-land, Pennland, Westernland, Minnetonka, Miunewaska, Norwegian, Nubian, Dakotian, Nitonian-were all for sale. (Two days later the Nitonian was sold.) Moreover on July 1 I. M. M. will lose its job as agent for White Star as a result of that line's consolidation with Cunard. Further facts brought out last week...
...Franklin received a bonus of $250,000 in 1927 for the sale of White Star; his $100,000 salary has been...
...hair and shaved him, then to the office. He has seen the music-publishing business in three distinct phases: 1) when songs sold for a dime and made little profit; 2) when the price reached 30? and people gladly paid it; 3) when radio came along, cut the sale of a hit from 2,000,000 to 200,000 copies, the life of a song from a year to two months. Berlin, the businessman, has a log kept to show the number of times his songs are broadcast over the three major networks. But he forgets to call...
...Manhattan's Washington Market unemployed artists found a vacant meat stall, started an art sale. When market patrons showed interest only in one drawing, a nudist colony at play, the artists veiled the picture, sold peeps at a penny apiece. Market Director Aloysius Mallo appeared, took one perquisite peek popped: "Put that away or I'll put you out. That's too hot for my customers, I'll tell the world...