Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past few days dormitory residents have received from the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association, new conducting its thirty-third annual Christmas seal sale, sheets of the well-known stamps through the mails. Since "tuberculosis is no longer the white man's plague," part of the proceeds will go towards education of the public about other fatal diseases such as cancer and syphilis...
...terms of the sale were: 1) that Continental would cut the book value of its common stock from $75,000,000 to $25,000,000 (thus keeping the total capitalization unchanged); 2) that Continental would buy back its preferred from RFC at least $250,000 every six months; 3) that until the preferred was retired RFC should have voting control of the bank; 4) that all directors had to be approved by RFC. The most important result of the deal was that Jesse Jones's good friend Walter Joseph Cummings was made chairman of the board, salary...
...York World's Fair last summer pretty Florence Mistele, 18, design student, and handsome Richard Graham, 20, actor, hatched a solution to the age-old problem of what to do with one glove after the other is lost. This week their patented answer went on sale at Manhattan's swank Mark Cross Co. (leather goods). It was a glove which looked like a hand's pattern jig-sawed out of a board. It is made by sewing an identical back and palm to a leather ribbon edge. Loose and easy on the open hand, it bunches...
Yale in the person of Albie Booth put an end to Cantab hopes for an undefeated season in 1931, when the Eli leader split the goal posts for three vital points. The gilded era ended next year with sale of seats to the general public, which act Yale celebrated by a 19 to 0 shutout...
...publisher, was slated for early recording, and in the wind was a Broadway stage production, with Ballad for Americans its theme. But to inquiring advertisers interested in sponsoring Pursuit of Happiness, CBS last week for the time being had two short words: "No sale...