Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting last night, the polls will be open to the public from ten until eight o'clock for a special vote on the liquor question. The ballot which will be presented to the people on that date will contain two provisions only: "a. Shall licenses be issued allowing the sale of hard liquors such as rum, whiskey and gin? b.--Shall licenses be issued allowing the sale of wines and malt liquors?" If, however, one per cent of the registered voters, 430 persons, so petition, a clause may be added to this bill for voting on the taverns...
While Cambridge was thus postponing the eventual decision, a large proportion of its inhabitants had joined the festive crowds in Boston, where liquor was on sale early in the evening. According to reports received late last night, the celebrators had been deceived by confused newspaper accounts, and had imagined that no liquor would be sold until ten o'clock at the earliest. This fact probably did much to prevent any too riotous demonstration, although, when last word was had, the drinkers were doing their best to make up for the time they had lost. Hotels and other places so fortunate...
Opening its twenty-seventh annual drive for the sale of Christmas seals, the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association mailed 6,185 sheets of stamps to Harvard students last Friday. The proceeds of the sale will be used for continuing the campaign against tuberculosis, the prevention of heart disease, and for furnishing a preventorium to care for children...
...legal or not, the sale made by the estate of Marcus Loew, and by others, had been made in good faith, could not be rescinded...
...capital he formed Goodwin Corp. His scheme is to build up a consumer market hy getting church people to sell products on commission. The church-going salesladies get 2% "remuneration"' which they "may" turn over to their church-a technicality to sidestep restraint-of-trade statistics. Wrappers or sales slips establish proof of sale. The manufacturer whose product is thus sold agrees to spend at least 3% of the additional volume of sales on newspaper advertising in the locality covered. The manufacturer also agrees to pay Goodwin Corp. 1½% of the volume of new business. Goodwin Corp...