Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westerners are convinced that aid through the sale of special supplies to England and France can only entangle us where we should not be. Whatever trade we have with these European countries, they feel, must rest on an attitude strictly impartial in action, if not in thought. This does not mean that supplies should be cut off from these two countries, but that they should get them at our convenience, after our interests had first been considered, if our interests allowed such sales at all. We are not to inconvenience ourselves just to sell to democracies. Thus the policy...
...President conferred once more with Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joe Kennedy, God-sped him back to his post two weeks ahead of schedule. Foreign policy, meantime, was a hushed subject. To a press conference which got after him again about the sale of prime air power to foreigners, Franklin Roosevelt exploded with characteristic trick humor...
...other was Harry Cooke Gushing of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc. Last week Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. filed with SEC a registration statement covering 600,000 shares of $1 -par-value common stock. Mr. Cushing's firm will head a syndicate to raise over $3,000,000 from sale of the stock. Farnsworth Corp. will absorb The Capehart Inc. (famed record-changing phonograph) and the manufacturing facilities of General Household Utilities Co., which include the plant at Marion, Ind. where the old Grigsby-Grunow radio sets were made...
What apparently hurt Italy's feelings most, however, was the sale of U.S. planes to France. Popolo di Roma denounced the "scandalous supply of planes to France" and expressed belief that this was a violation of the U. S. Constitution, which it is not. Warning France not to believe that U. S. help would be forthcoming in a war, Popolo d'ltalia said: "This is one of the most colossal delusions into which France has ever fallen. Because, if despite the efforts of the totalitarian states to insure a just peace, war should break out, before...
Plans of Samuel Williston Shor, '41, to purchase a Maryland university for his own private use fell through today with the denial of W. R. Flack, Dean of Blue Ridge College, New Windsor, Maryland, that the institution was for sale, or ever would...