Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...danger--and it is by no means a slight one--that prices of rum will be maintained on about the present level by the retail liquor stores and that they will simply pocket the extra profit. If this happens the Federal government should take steps to insure the sale of the rum at a decent price to the consumer, for the whole project is being financed by the government out of the funds of the Public Works Administration, and in view of this public character of the work it should certainly not be permitted to become merely a means...
...bail dangled before the avaricious eyes of the counsel for the defense was $2500 and the sale gave the Record the right to publish any tidbit it wished over the signature of Norma, until she should be released from the custody of the state by acquittal. In the case of conviction it is not too fantastic to suppose that the serial could go on indefinitely...
Save for the conscientious Nudist, the forbidden publications were all smut sheets, compendiums of "art studies'' bearing such titles as Wild Cherries, Cupid's Capers, Hollywood Squawks. Heretofore the sale of questionable magazines in New York has been combated with the vague threat of criminal prosecution. But austere little Mayor La Guardia has new ways of doing things. His commissioner of licenses simply announced that anyone in his jurisdiction who was caught selling dirty publications would be put out of business...
...only individual concert in Cambridge this season, the Pierian Sodality vill present a program on Monday, March 27, at Pains Hall in the Music Building. Tickets for this concert are in sale at the Coop and at the Music building, and cost 50 cents or one dollar the program and list of patronesses will be announced later...
...securities which he bought to finance labor-making projects. Like any smart bond dealer he saw in the present municipal bond boomlet a fine opportunity to turn over his capital. Last week while financial sections of the Press blossomed with municipal bond advertisements, Bond Dealer Ickes offered for public sale his first batch of PWA municipals...