Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just to mak it sporting she lately sold 80 Armstrong Siddeley airplane engines to Germany. Rumors spread quickly that General von Ribbentrop was also in London to try t arrange purchase of 150 more British engines for commercial purposes, of course, since Britain has a special law preventing the sale of war supplies to any foreign power except under special government license Very curt was the British Government last week to the French Embassy's suggestion that such powerful air plane engines as the Armstrong Siddeleys might easily be used in bombers...
...willing to challenge Japan for their own good but not for the good of China. An appeal that fails is worse than no appeal at all. China held her peace. One little nose-thumbing at Japan Nanking could afford. Though Japan had made much of her opposition to the sale of munitions to China, and the use of foreign military instructors for Chinese troops, a commission of 22 bright young Chinese officers left Shanghai last week to visit Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain and finally the U.S. to inspect forts and munitions factories and study the organization...
...Raeburn portrait of two young brothers named Allen. Another, lesser Raeburn was sold in 30 seconds also to Mr. Dewar, for ?4,620 ($23,608.20). A Romney went for $25.217.85. The Raeburn portrait of the Allen brothers brought the top price in London's biggest art sale since Depression...
With such wise, earnest words Mrs. Edith Halpert, smart mistress of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, this week opened her sixth annual "$100 show." Mrs. Halpert's previous $100 shows suffered from studio remnants. But no critics could spot unwanted leftovers in this week's exhibit. For sale at $100 each were pictures by such U. S. artists as Peggy Bacon, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ernest Fiene, Marguerite Zorach, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer and many another. Most of the pictures had been marked down from $300 or more...
...times as large as the total of registered stocks & bonds actually offered to the public. During April, the Commission announced last week, registrations becoming effective under the law reached a monthly peak of $156,000,000. Yet only $11,000,000 of these registered issues were offered for public sale. In ten months (July to May) more than $1,000,000,000 worth of securities of all kinds have been registered with the Commission in some 900 statements. In ten months of 1926 the U. S. absorbed a total of $4,275,000,000 in new capital. Since October when...