Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noland was the Secretary of the Commission, having been so appointed because of his experience in the Poland Spring Water Company. That Commission advertised for six months in Europe as well as America, as I recall, for bids to lease the sale of the waters for a period...
...years. At the date fixed in the advertisements for the receiving of the bids, not one was presented that had merit in the opinion of the then Commission. Thereafter, Mr. Noland, knowing of the desire of the Commission to secure for the State a profit from the sale of the waters, through an experienced handling of the same, secured the co-operation of his friend and former associate in the Poland Spring Water Co., Mr. Leslie R. Rounds, to study the situation and propose a bid for the leasing of the sale of the waters. A bid was finally worked...
...international character of the Festival used to be its most striking feature. Tickets were sold out long in advance. This time they were still on sale 20 minutes before the curtain rose. Faced with a deluge of cancellations, Propaganda Minister Goebbels had proclaimed that unsubscribed tickets would be distributed to loyal Nazis. When Chancellor Hitler entered the Wagner family box the audience rose to its feet, extended right arms in the Nazi salute, cheered wildly, had to be hushed into silence. Mindful of strictures caused by the audience's bellowing ''Deutschland uber Alles" after the first post...
...sale, John Dunbrack Ewing, trustee and operator since 1931 of his late father's paper, called the States staff together. A note of bitterness found its way into his farewell address when he recalled that "Huey Long by threats and terrorism had blocked efforts to refinance after the bank troubles this spring, when the States was caught in the Canal Bank & Trust Co. [TIME, April 3]." He was happy to say that the Times-Picayune, "the South's oldest and richest newspaper" and no friend to Huey Long, would retain the States' senior staff members, including Editor...
...sale, John Dunbrack Ewing, trustee and operator since 1931 of his late father's paper, called the States staff together. A note of bitterness found its way into his farewell address when he recalled that "Huey Long by threats and terrorism had blocked efforts to refinance after the bank troubles this spring, when the States was caught in the Canal Bank & Trust Co. [TIME, April 3]." He was happy to say that the Times-Picayune, "the South's oldest and richest newspaper" and no friend to Huey Long, would retain the States' senior staff members, including Editor...