Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kinder to philately than the U. S.* When the post office closed at 6 p. m. people were yet unserved. Postmaster William M. Mooney announced that anyone who came back next day could still have the cancellation dated Jan. 1 if he liked. It was the heaviest commemorative stamp sale in the history of the Post Office Department...
...lease Labrador-than which, from a British standpoint, nothing could be more deplorable. In St. John's one night last week harassed Newfoundland Premier Sir Richard Anderson Squires sat up to wee hours bickering and dickering with representatives of a syndicate of four Canadian banks. Was it a sale? Next day in Montreal, Canada, where most of Newfoundland's fiscal news breaks first, eager newshawks pounced on Sir Percy Thompson, deputy chairman of the British Board of Inland Revenue recently "loaned" to Newfoundland. Waving away all question of the sale or lease of Labrador, Sir Percy announced that...
...What makes us sad," commented Rev. Sigfrid Sirenius, one of Helsinki's leading settlement workers, "is to think that revenue from the sale of liquor will soon figure as the basis of the national budget. . . . The local deduction will be that it will be a patriotic duty to drink heavily, so that the State will get more revenue...
...trademark was adopted by a German named William Paul Ahnelt shortly after he founded Pictorial Review 32 years ago. It symbolized the $13 capital with which he started his dress pattern business upon coming to the U. S. Last week Founder Ahnelt. 67, sold his magazine, long rumored "for sale," but for how much more than $13, he did not reveal...
...Greet production of "Julius Caesar" on Tuesday, January 19 at Jordan Hall in Boston may get in touch with J. F. Joyce '32 at Eliot F33 before next Thursday. Tickets for the Ben Greet plays, which are being sponsored by the Harvard Dramatic Club, are on sale at the "Coop" and Jordan Hall...