Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure of the favorite-which is almost an Aintree tradition -last week's race was run truer to form than any Grand National anyone could remember. The Hon. Dorothy Wyndham Paget, owner of Golden Miller, last year spent $200,000 for brood mares at the Newmarket sale. Two years before she had bought Golden Miller, who had brought only $500 as a yearling and had been resold four times since, for about $30,000. That her racing colors contain the same shade of blue as that of the foremost U. S. racing family, the Whitneys, is appropriate. Dorothy Paget...
...seemed evident that Pittsburgh's Health Department had suspected something wrong since mid-January, when McCreery's and another pet shop received dead and dying birds in shipments from California. The Department quarantined all the birds for ten days, then allowed them to be put on sale, even though it has been demonstrated that a parrot may carry the disease for 14 months. Also in January the Department sent two of the dead birds to a Public Health Service laboratory. The Service found them too badly decomposed for diagnosis...
...York for alleged evasion of the Federal Income Tax laws. Mitchell was acquitted, on the grounds that he was entitled to register the loss of depreciated securities to his wife, even though it was followed by immediate repurchase, inasmuch as the state failed to show that the sale was not in good faith...
President Franklin's interest in the great merger which was to give Britain the world's biggest and fastest liner and a united front on the North Atlantic was a matter of $12,000.000. This was the sum still due I. M. M. for the sale of White Star in 1927, and the notes were secured by all of White Star's outstanding stock. Mr. Franklin said he had not been consulted. The terms of the merger, he thundered, were grossly unfair to White Star stockholders. While he personally was not a stockholder his company...
Although some reductions have been made for round trip tickets this spring vacation, last year's special agreement between the Dean's Office and the Railroad Company is not in effect. Round trip tickets limited to a period of 30 days are on sale, but in most cases students will have to leave Boston on Tuesday or Saturday if they wish to take advantage of the lower prices. Owing to the small demand the Coop has discontinued its usual practice of handling tickets the week before vacation...