Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harris) who looks as sinister as a Kewpie doll, acts as honorably as a double-crossing spy, throws telephones across the stage, never lets his right-hand man know what his left-hand man is doing, hires, fires, wheedles, fondles, gives his office the dignity of a bargain sale...
Late last night a large crowd gathered to observe a "For Sale" sign hung on the building's probosels. Lampoon editors trailed out sorrowfully, carrying their engraved steins. "What mugs," an onlooker was heard to exclaim...
...evidence of the trend. Lease of two more was confirmation. So was consolidation of the two Hearst news services (Universal and International News), the recent disposal of the unprofitable Hearst radio station KEHE, Los Angeles, and the announcement that some $15,000,000 worth of art objects were for sale. This week Mr. Hearst's plan of liquidation was official fact...
...policy, he will have difficulty matching the frankness of the final Bridge World editorial while under Culbertson ownership: "Every bridge writer with the facilities to do so is even now working on some sort of book, any sort of book, about five-suit contract. There will be a quick sale for it. The public can discover its unsoundness later, when the money is already in the till. Naturally, the editors of the Bridge World are in the thick of it, getting their own book on five-suit bridge printed and on sale...
...legal fees, accountant fees and cuts to dealers. To gross $50,000, which investment bankers generally consider minimum per deal, the banker would have to charge an exorbitant commission to float a small issue. Said Mr. Vass: "The banker can afford to charge but 2% or 3% on the sale of a $10,000,000 or $20,000,000 issue, while he must charge, say, 8% or 10% on an issue...