Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative Lister Hill, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Secretary of War Woodring last week dispatched a chit. He recommended repeal of a law passed in 1901 which forbids the sale of beer, wine or intoxicating beverages on Army premises. This, Mr. Woodring explained, was not a Wet-Dry issue, but a question of discrimination against the Army. Sailors and marines can now buy beer at their canteens ashore. Said he: "The repeal of this law restores the Army to parity with the Navy...
Last week, the ingenious Mr. Morgan having died (TIME, May 3), Secretary Early felt called upon to make explanations, because Representative Bertrand H. Snell (Republican) produced the photostat of a letter, purporting to have been sent out by the Democratic National Committee, offering copies of the book for sale and saying: "We are using this book as a means of clearing up the deficit and the President has made his contribution by individually autographing each of the volumes...
...sale of the book enables us to legally accept corporation checks, and this is the way all the companies who are assisting us are handling these expenditures...
...with miniature cameras, "educational" releases. Recently U. S. owners of miniature projection machines have encountered the first move to bring coherence to the minimovies by developing them as an outlet for newsreels. It was News Parade, a group of three newsreels manufactured and released by Eugene W. Castle for sale in department stores throughout the country...
Immediately each member asks his office for accumulated orders, notes them on a slip of paper, which is passed to the chairman. There may be 500 bars of gold for sale, orders for only 300, a "position" which would indicate a buyer's market.* After the chairman names the starting price-now the buying price of the Bank of France in terms of the latest quotation for pound sterling-the members make bids & offers, buying order being matched against selling order until supply & demand meet. The price at that point is the gold price for the day. The whole...