Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open during the funeral. Said he: "I'm not going to ask them to close because I don't think Calvin Coolidge would want that. He knew what they've been through. Every nickel counts with them. He wouldn't want them to lose a sale...
...fair opened in Manhattan this week. From Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan came the merchants and the craftsmen. Their wares were new, bright, polished, gorgeous. Transportation was for sale. Better and cheaper...
...caroling mouths of Carol Volkman, 7, and her brother George, 3. printed on Christmas Seals brought the National Tuberculosis Association about $3.500,000 this year. The Christmas Seal sale last year totaled $4,532,005.18. The difference means the curtailment of many anti-tuberculosis activities. But one aim will not be scanted: attack on the problem of why twice as many young women as young men between the ages of 15 and 24 die from tuberculosis...
...Spreckels family closed their place on the Riviera not long ago. Quite foolishly, they brought their art treasures to the United States for sale. They got less than they would have in Paris. Many of their pictures have been picked up in the United States and shipped to the Paris market at a fine profit...
Whatever their private opinions of Christianity, Japanese shopkeepers are ardently in favor of Christmas. Tokyo's great Shirokiya's stores-rebuilt in glass and concrete after the earthquake of 1923-held a special Christmas sale last week. Colored lights hung from the balconies. On the third floor there was a huge Christmas tree, loaded with celluloid ornaments. Price tags on every table called attention to Shirokiya's bargain day-the managers are proud of the fact that they were the first store in Japan to adopt the one price system, now employ 1,300 people. There...