Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government for having "invested $2,500,000 of taxpayers' money in rum distilling in the Virgin Islands. This is the first instance in history that our Government has gone into the business of manufacturing liquor. This Government-manufactured rum has been shipped recently to the United States for sale." A message to the convention from President Roosevelt omitted all mention of alcohol, urged world peace...
Szathmary concentrated in the Department of Philosophy. His thesis in slightly condensed form received a second Bowdoin Prize. As a book, it will go on sale after publication by the Society, at the Coop and other book stores in September...
...shares in the Nieman estate were acquired by the Journal Co. and Miss McBeath at $3,500 a share, Miss McBeath buying in her part of the trustfund. Next, one-fourth of the Journal's total stock, split 100 for 1 to convenient $35 units, was offered for sale to Journal employes of five years standing. Since 531 Journalists qualified, each employe received an initial stock quota of from $500 to $5,000, based on his pay & rank...
Though Mr. Paine forgot about it. the spider story continued to turn up here & there. Last year, the monthly Mechanics & Handicraft featured the story in its July number under the title "Webs for Sale." This time Pierre Grantaire was back in his native France, operating from a "little village in the department of the Loire...
Biggest hate of all independent theatre owners is block-booking, or sale of blocks of films to exhibitors sight unseen. Enlisted in Allied's fight against block-selling are church groups, women's clubs and parent-teacher associations which believe that one result is the inclusion among the pictures booked of offensive films which the independent owner is compelled to take. Producers retort that this is untrue because block-booking contracts provide a 10 to 15% cancellation privilege. Great advantage of block-booking from the producers' point of view is that it gives them a constant, steady...