Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed wine-colored rooms of Christie's (Christie, Manson & Woods), famed London auctioneers, the voice of Captain Sir Henry Floyd was heard last week. It lost none of its discreet fervor through much use. Standing tall and straight on the rostrum, Sir Henry was presiding at the auction sale of one of the richest art hoards of modern times: the collection of the late Banker Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb). Banker Schiff, who died in 1931, had built a house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for the proper housing and display of his treasures. Behind last week...
Experts creamily agreed last week that the sale was going quite well. Purchases after two days totted up to $242,000. Jacques Seligmann of Paris & Manhattan paid $19,000 for Bouchardon's slim, adolescent statue of Cupid, which the elder Schiff acquired...
...Cracked down on the great meat packing house of Swift & Co. Charging "unfair and unjustly discriminatory" methods in the sale and distribution of its products, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace issued a cease and desist order. Secretary Wallace's action followed a seven-year look-see into such complaints as that Swift made agreements with numerous concerns to buy meat only from it, that Swift deliberately misled customers about competitors' policies, that Swift manipulated prices in search of a meat monopoly...
Forest. As Mr. Rice showed it, Alcoa's management ever since the company was founded in 1888 as Pittsburgh Reduction Co. has been dominated by one idea: to control every last sale of aluminum in the U. S. Its success, claimed the prosecutor, is indicated by the fact that a $100 share in the company in 1890 has by now yielded a par value of $8,760, that some $100,000,000 has been paid in cash dividends in the past 48 years, that Alcoa admittedly controls 100% of the virgin aluminum production in the U. S., that everyone...
...City, Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros. Inc. and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Inc. advertised American Television Corp. receiving sets. Davega City Radio Inc., retail specialists in radios and sporting goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...