Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loss on sale of real estate and securities...
...trick once he learned it) instigator. The American that gladdened his heart was Hiram Maxim, whose new machine gun was incomparably the best killing machine Zaharoff had ever seen. Zaharoff took Maxim to his bosom, with reservations. First he used his wily, polyglot salesmanship to block the gun's sale in Austria as an impractical toy; them, when he had offered Maxim a partnership and get the sale of the gun firmly in his own hands he swept over Europe and Asia selling such quantities that soon the new firm of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns & Ammunition Co. was purchased...
...thriving, peace-loving town (pop.: 11,000), loyal to its Chamber of Commerce and American Legion, until Llewellyn A. Banks arrived from Riverside, Calif, in 1925. With him he brought his second wife, two new Cadillacs, 40 suits of custom-made clothes, and a million dollars netted from the sale of citrus orchards in Southern California. Baldish, spectacled, with high cheek bones, Banks struck Oregon like a tornado. He became the largest single owner of pear orchards in the state, bought the Medford News, boldly declared himself a candidate for the U. S. Senate against Senator Charles L. McNary, stumped...
...daughters Countess (Gladys) Széchényi and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, three grandsons and two granddaughters. "The Breakers," her famed home at Newport, and her town house in Manhattan also went to Countess Széchényi. A $150,000 legacy and funds remaining from the sale of the old Vanderbilt chateau on west 57th Street were left to Mrs. Whitney...
According to the bill of sale, the Lampoon gives up all rights to publication and permits the CRIMSON to take up the duty of putting out their issues...