Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glad to say that since the appearance of your article, permission from the City authorities having jurisdiction has finally been secured after considerable effort, and the open air exhibition and sale will be held commencing with the week...
Senate Democrats under Arkansas' Robinson brought forth their first party plan for direct Federal aid to plain citizens. It was endorsed by such men as Alfred Emanuel Smith, Owen D. Young, Bernard Mannes Baruch. The plan: 1) raise $2,300,000,000 by a U. S. bond sale...
...President's plan not only steered clear of the Budget but also of the Treasury's credit. It would be financed by the sale of R. F. C. debentures which are only indirect obligations of the Government. Senator Robinson took it back to the Capitol where his party colleagues closeted themselves in an effort to draft a legislative compromise. Most Democrats objected to the idea of R. F. C. loans to private industries rather than to public agencies on the ground that the Administration could use this financial power to muster election votes. Republican Senators, generally cold...
...license fee of ten shillings per set (about $1.80 at current exchange) supplies the chief revenue of the B. B. C. and most listeners feel they get their money's worth. From licenses B. B. C nets around $4,500,000 per year, nets another $600,000 from the sale of its publications Radio Times, World-Radio and The Listener. (Listeners who happen to miss an important lecture can read it verbatim in The Listener, on all British newsstands every Wednesday...
...Economist John Maynard Keynes broadcasting advice to spend rather than save cut the sale of National Saving Certificates in Great Britain from 250,000 per day to 157,000. In this emergency B. B. C. soon afterward put Sir Josiah Stamp on the air and his stirring appeal? A Thousand Million Saving Certificates! ?boosted sales so much that three days later 450,000 were sold and on the fourth day 500,000?a record...