Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three weeks of canvassing the University in its annual sale of Christmas seals, the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association announces favorable returns from sales among students. From the 1505 students who have contributed, $1553 has already been received. To date, 2193 students have returned the seals, while 2690 men have not yet been heard from. The sale is less than it was last year, but it is doing as well as was anticipated by the board in charge. Last year's sale at Harvard totaled $2171. M.I.T. and Radcliffe are also being canvassed by the Cambridge Association...
...undergraduate recently went to New York for the express purpose of gathering together as many as possible of the cheapest sort of magazines for sale in the Times Square district. He worked on the theory that the Grub Street products of an age had a distinct place in its literary history. William W. Watt, in his essay on the penny, sixpenny and shilling Gothic stories that persisted long after "Frankenstein" and "The Monk" had passed out of fashion, has proved this unanswerably...
...Farm. For his plant he had bought $30,000 worth of automobiles, constructed an $18,000 laboratory, dams, a series of modern buildings. He said he had hoped to repay Socony-Vacuum out of his profits. The company took over the fur and chicken farms, put them up for sale, forbade Paymaster Head the premises, planned to start prosecution...
...events. Other write-offs included: "Uncollectable receivables- $1,556,842. Provision for loss on accounts due from former officer of subsidiary company (including charges of $138,310 resulting from litigation)-$303,557. Provision for loss in realization of advances to The Silica Gel Corp.- $1,916,800. Loss on sale of stock held under officials' and employes' stock purchase plan-$322,222." Six contingent liabilities, including three lawsuits, were also listed...
...prices are marked in plain figures for all to read. It is difficult to hold a "sale" with discounts on books that are not priced...