Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyelash dye, in her eyes. Last fortnight the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 17 such victims of the latest U. S. beauty fad, one of them facing total blindness. First city in the land to act was New York. Last week its Health Department banned the manufacture, sale and use of brow & lash dyes containing aniline derivatives or metallic salts...
Investigators had found no victims in the city, but had discovered dangerous dyes in use in beauty parlors, on sale in drug stores. Last week the Health Department had condemned "Lash-Lure" and "Di-Lash," had not yet completed analyses of "Coloura," "Ey-Tec" and "Ey-dolize." From reputable physicians the A. M. A. has received reports of damage done by "Louise Norris." "Loris." "Perma Coleur" and "Larieuse." Like all cosmetics, these dyes are now outside Federal control which would be extended to them if & when Congress passes the proposed new Federal Food & Drugs ("Tugwell") Bill...
...ivory hammer knocked down a 15th Century portrait bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana to Lord Duveen of Millbank, for $102,500. It was the highest price paid at an art auction in New York since Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest of the etchings, picture books, Persian rugs, Gothic and Renaissance bronzes & marbles, Etruscan urns and other pomps & gauds assembled in the financier...
...Renotiere von Ferrari of Austria and Arthur Hind of Utica, N. Y. who bought the cream of the Ferrari collection on the Count's death and who died last March at the age of 77 (TIME, March 13). Last week the most important philatelic event since the Ferrari sale of 1922 occurred in Manhattan when the first part of the great Hind collection was auctioned...
...knew Louis Burt Mayer. Since Louis Mayer, besides being a potent California Republican, was also the Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (which Mr. Fox was absorbing), Mr. Fox knew him very well. He also knew that Mr. Mayer did not approve of the terms of the Loew sale. So Mr. Fox looked up Mr. Mayer...