Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff who live all the time at the radio station have horses to bring in supplies and to get in and out to the highway themselves. . . . Horses cause no radio interference. . . . The most profitable aspect of transatlantic telephony for the I. T. & T. up to now has been the sale of the children of these horses...
...HUDSON, onetime member of the New York Stock Exchange, owns 78% of a company in Newfoundland, the rest belonging to his brother and a close friend. Last year he lost $130,000 on the sale of securities. According to the income tax law a taxpayer cannot deduct losses beyond $2,000 unless they are balanced by corresponding profits. Rather than let his loss (tax credit) go to waste, Mr. Hudson sold other securities to his Newfoundland company for a profit of $130,000. Later if and when that company sells those securities it will not have any taxable profit...
...described, this transaction looked to some businessmen less like a tax evasion than such a polite device to grease the palms of Latin Americans, as is often necessary to complete a sale...
First issue of News Parade was a film on the Hindenburg disaster which went on sale three weeks ago. Second was the Coronation of George VI. Third in the series, released last week, was a life story of the Duke of Windsor. Said Producer Castle: "We are now planning to provide home movie enthusiasts with pictures of similar interest at regular intervals, probably twice a month." Items in the News Parade are made for both silent and sound-equipped projectors, cost from $1.75 for an 8-mm., 50-ft. sequence to $17.50 for a 350-ft., 16-mm. sound film...
...market one morning the Steam specialists could find no bids fit to print on the ticker. Stock Exchange officials went into a huddle with the specialists. Nearly an hour after the opening a quotation finally appeared on the ticker-70 bid, 90 asked. After nearly another hour the first sale appeared-$73, off 30½ points. But no bid could the specialists rustle up for the 6% series until 1:30 p. m., when the tape recorded the market as 50 bid, 75 asked. The first sale...