Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill for Federal control of new security issues offered for interstate sale; sent it to the Senate...
...company shall replace its foreign employes by Persians as rapidly as possible; shall spend ?10,000 a year in scholarships to educate young Persians in Great Britain. 7) Be business good or bad, the minimum annual payment to the Persian Government is to be ?750,000. 8) For the sale of oil in Persia, prices to the public shall be 10% less than Gulf of Mexico or Rumanian prices, whichever is the lowest at the time, and 25% less to the Persian Government...
...beaten by Col. Bradley's Bubbling Over in the Derby of 1926. Best of the western entrants, most people thought, were Charley O, who won the Florida Derby, and a "10^ store horse" named Head Play. An oldtime jockey, Willie Crump, bought Head Play at a yearling sale for $500, gave him to his wife. Last week, when Head Play had beaten most of the other Derby eligibles in a preliminary race at Churchill Downs, Mrs. Crump sold him to Mrs. Silas Mason of New York for $30,000 and 15% of the $48,925 Derby Purse, in case...
Three hundred members of the Otter Tail County Farmers' Holiday Association last week clumped into the county courthouse in Fergus Falls, Minn, to stop the foreclosure sale of a farm owned by one Abraham Matson. Leading the crowd marched a public-spirited Unitarian clergyman, Rev. John Flint, 50, outraged that the auction was to take place even though Farmer Matson was home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted...
...Received from the Banking & Currency Committee a bill for Federal control of new security issues offered for interstate sale...