Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt issued an executive order to permit the export of freshly mined gold for sale at world prices. A second order required gold hoarders to register their holdings with the Treasury. How this order was to be enforced upon hoarders who had so far successfully defied the Government's threat of prosecution was not explained. Presumably hoarders, if caught, would be prosecuted for failing to register rather than for possessing gold...
...eclipse last week was due to one thing: unalterable opposition to the sale of Russia's section of the Chinese Eastern Railroad to Japan. Because the Soviet dares at this point risk no open break with Japan, Steel Man Stalin was firmly prepared to sacrifice both his railroad and his Vice Commissar...
...council, he squabbled over policies with the pastor, Rev. Felix G. Robinson. One day Pastor Robinson angrily struck Businessman Ackerman, who retaliated. Businessman Ackerman held a $10,000 bond as guarantor of a mortgage on the church. To protect his investment he bid in the church at a foreclosure sale. Last week he presented his fellow Lutherans with an ultimatum: they could oust Pastor Robinson and buy Businessman Ackerman's church, or they could get out. The congregation promptly got out, taking their pastor with them and setting up a church of their own in a private house. Businessman...
...political pressure that Universal might bring on the R. F. C. Rogers Caldwell & Co., his new banking house, had nothing to do with the dark-fired deal. It was engineered by Mr. Caldwell personally, with a few associates. The firm, its original stake of $1,000 swelled considerably by sale of preferred stock to the public, is doing business in local stocks, local real estate, has even toyed with an Alabaman canal project...
...weary of being a clerk and counting nickels and dimes. I wanted to deal in millions like my two idols. I wanted to go into business for myself. I wanted to be my own boss and make millions." When Motorman Dodge died, Cromwell organized a company to finance retail sales of Dodge automobiles. The company had a turnover of $30,000,000 in three years, was sold at a profit after James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler for $160,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street history...