Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adam & Eve, Actress West imparts a meaning all her own; despite all directorial and script-writing efforts to make her steer a straight course, she still writhes as she pleases. As sexless a game as selling a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge resembles, in the West vernacular, a bargain sale of great temptations...
...basic income of the average golf professional is derived from the sale of golf balls. If he is employed by a country club of average wealth and size, the average professional's revenue from teaching, the sale of golf equipment and the concession for shining the members' clubs amounts to about $5,000 a year. In the winter months, when the majority of the 2,000,000 golfers in the U. S. turn their hands to bridge and the radio, the majority of the jobless professionals go south. Some are hired to accompany rich club members to their...
When, last week, Madison Square Garden announced that Skater Henie in person would appear in Manhattan this month in a skating spectacle called The Holly-wood Ice Revue, her admirers stampeded the Garden box office, took away $10.000 worth of tickets during the first day of the advance sale. Remembering well that Cinemactress Henie, had recently sustained a slight concussion when she toppled onto her head during the filming of Happy Landing, Garden officials promptly cabled Lloyd's of London to ask for a $250,000 accident-insurance policy. Of the long procession of sport figures-from Dempsey...
...display in Fogg Art Museum now are selected drawings by old masters, including examples from the Museum collection, the Charles A. Loeser bequest, acquisitions from the Oppenheimer sale held in London last year, and loans from Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus. Also being shown are some English water colors, and a new permanent exhibition of Near Eastern Art. Included in this latter exhibit are Persian Miniatures and pottery, Syrian glass and Graeco-Roman pottery...
...possibility that a boycott can prevent the sale of any great part of the silk hosiery turned out by U. S. manufacturers (42,000,000 dozen pairs in 1936) or throw the 90,000 workers in the industry out of a job seemed slim. About 65% of silk hosiery machines in operation can be converted to lisle or rayon production without much loss. Tide last week reported that during the last two months 55 manufacturers have begun to make lisle hosiery although only five did so before...