Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, the list of Franklin Roosevelt's forthcoming literary works had begun to assume the proportions of Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf. Announced last summer were the President's State Papers, edited by Judge Samuel Rosenman, in five volumes. Three weeks ago, the President announced sale of the prefaces to the Papers to Liberty Magazine, of notes on the Papers to United Feature Syndicate. Last week, it developed that Liberty was also going to publish stenographic transcriptions of Presidential press conferences, also included in the State Papers. What total price the President received was not officially...
Latest gadget was put on sale in Chicago last week when veteran dance-band Maestro Carl Rupp, abetted by hopeful piano dealers, introduced his Piano Master. Rupp's ingenious contraption makes playing a tune like Annie Laurie almost as simple as swatting flies on a windowpane. The principle is the same as that of the old-fashioned player piano, minus that part of the machinery which does the actual pressing & releasing of the keys. A motor-driven player-roll mechanism flashes a light beneath each transparent key at the moment when it should be struck. Wherever the student sees...
...culminated in a full-sized, completely outfitted hardware store, set up to the astonishment of the Illinois Retail Hardware Association convention in a display room of Chicago's Hotel Sherman. The 3,000 delegates gaped at the news that not only the stock but the store was FOR SALE...
...These numbers (attendance figures) are about equal to those present at the basketball games. The H. A. A. anticipates an early sale of all tickets for the Harvard-Yale meet of this year, since it could not obtain as many tickets from the Y. A. A. as it had request...
Tickets have been on sale at the Union and are priced at $1.50 a couple and $1.25 for stags. Fifteen ushers and five patronesses have been selected to be present at the affair...