Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirty-first Annual Sale of Christmas Seals in Cambridge begins the day after Thanksgiving, for the support of Sunshine Camp, a summer health school for sixty boys and girls. The money is also used to wage an educational campaign against tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer and syphilis...
...based his rates accordingly. If he had paid $1,000 for the boat, it was his own error and loss. Another Roosevelt example was a run-down electric plant in Georgia with a few miles of line, a few decrepit boilers worth $50,000. When it was offered for sale fresh bidding raised the price to $200,000. But, according to the President, the new owners had a right to earn a return only...
...shelf at the public library; that while the circulation of library books doubled during the Depression, new books in general encountered ''creeping apathy." A possible explanation is that Americans love brightly-colored automobiles, flowers, bright clothing, scandals, fast-moving cinema, more than they like books. But the sale of novels like Gone With the Wind, which has now sold one copy for every hundred U. S. citizens, suggests that Americans will buy books under certain conditions. Another answer is the difficulty most people have in finding a bookstore where they can get the books they want when they...
...depression had started, but no one was willing to admit it. A period of retrenchment, a short deflation, was all that people called it. The Stadium and Bowl were still filled. It was still the period of graduate coaching and no public sale. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Ticknor managed to pull out a Harvard victory...
...Yale game tickets went on public sale. The Harvard-Yale game ceased to be a family affair. A person could no longer be sure that the person who was sitting next to him could safely be talked with. It might be that he would be a member of the lower classes. And that ended the gilded period...