Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Collector Hearst had paid about $125,000 for 32 of his Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian silver pieces included in this sale, his loss on the whole transaction was estimated to be at least 50%. Nobody knew what the chances were that Mr. Hearst might soon part with his armor, of which his collection is supposedly one of the best in the world...
...empire (TIME, May 3 et seq.). Since then a bitter autumn has swept bleakly through the financial forest. Last week it became known that the Babes in the Woods had also felt the chill wind. With no cocktails and canapes for the press such as accompanied the original Alleghany sale, it was revealed in a routine report to the Securities & Exchange Commission that Frank Frederick Kolbe, one of the original Babes, had sold...
...package of cigarets a day breathes in 500 milligrams of nicotine every week. Whether this gradual dosage does harm may be debatable, but few are the smokers who would not leap at a chance to avoid nicotine as long as the method did not involve giving up smoking. On sale last week in United Cigar Stores, Liggett Drug Stores, Schulte Cigar Stores and many a hotel in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles was a device making such a boon to smokers available for the first time. So simple that it seems at first glance a quackery...
Setting as a goal an attendance of 340, Marvin said that tickets would be for sale all this week at a desk in the lobby of the Union. Although admitting that only 15 had been sold so far, he expressed the belief that "any dance event involving such great numbers of students could not help but be a success...
Freshmen are smoking more and reading less these days, a comprehensive survey (of the Union news stand) reveals. There is a marked drop in the amount of reading matter bought and a corresponding increase in the sale of cigarettes, indicating that if Yardlings read at all they read tobacco advertisements...