Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week announced the coming of a cloudburst. During the year beginning Aug. 1, the Board will dispose of 650,000 bales of cotton, one-half of the amount it bought from the 1930 crop at an average price of 16.3? a lb. It will be the first real sale made by the Government since it began trying to peg cotton prices. Since cotton sold last week at 6? a lb., and since it costs approximately $3.50 per year to store and insure a bale of cotton, the total Federal loss on this transaction will be between...
...Farm Board made its decision on the recommendation of "cotton cooperatives, leading Southern Bankers and leaders in the textile trade." But the' decision did not please Southern Senators. Georgia's George and South Carolina's Smith clamored for the Board to withhold its sale "for another year at least...
...year-old President, who lost four of his five sons in the War, left his Elysee Palace to sponsor a sale of books by French War Veterans. In the limousine beside ancient M. Doumer rode alert, bristle-bearded Novelist Claude Farrère, President de la Société des Ecrivains Combattants who were staging their "War Veterans' Book Afternoon" in the nearby building of the Rothschild Foundation. Book sales were proceeding briskly and Novelist Farrère's wife Henriette had just succeeded in selling a third book by her husband to the brawny Russian...
...Monte Carlo the assassin's wife returned from evening service at a Nice church, was arrested, grilled. Said she: "My husband told me he had gone to Paris to attend a book sale and sell some of his poetry. Now I think of it he did say: 'You'll soon hear great things of me!' But I thought he meant he expected to sell a lot of books...
...last guest speaker of the Club was Powers Hapgood '20, who spoke on the subject, "Ph.D. Men For Sale--Cheap!", stating that college men are in the same situation with regard to unemployment as are day laborers, because they are "selling their services" in the same way that manual laborers do. He said that socialism was the only solution of the problem, and used as examples of the success of socialistic policies his experiences in the operation of a canning factory in Indiana...