Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policyholders was a large increase in the clientele of independent insurance counselors, who work for fees, not commissions. Life companies are inclined to regard all insurance counselors as "twisters," people who persuade a policyholder to cancel a contract in one company in order to reap the commission on the sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned the word too loosely in a broadcast warning...
Since 1931 the U. S. company has been administered as part of the Lipton estate by Lord Inverforth and other Lipton trustees. Its sale last February brought it not only into closer union with the English company but into the corporate constellation of Unilever, Ltd., huge European margarine and soap combine (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Many a U. S. investor was surprised to learn last week that Lipton, Ltd. is among the myriad companies which Unilever dominates...
From the ticket sale, attendance at the Jubilee is estimated at 700; further admissions at the door will be $4.50 single, $5.50 couple. Al Douahue fresh from Radio City's Rainbow Room, will supply the music, and supper will be served at midnight...
High Roman Catholic prelates never had a more enthusiastic friend than Mrs. Macaulay, whose pleasure it was to entertain the dignitaries of her Church at "Inisfada." On sale last week were the beds they slept in, the antique crucifixes before which they prayed, the scenic tapestries which undoubtedly inspired them to homely homiletics. Some of the most important of these tapestries figured in the auction's largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries...
Pennsylvania's part in the liquor war between the States has been different. One of 17 States which has a monopoly on the sale of liquor, the Commonwealth's Legislature a year ago levied a 4% relief tax on distillers without allowing them to pass the boost on to consumers at 550 State stores. Valuing the big Pennsylvania market, distillers fell in line. All was well until last November when representatives of the other monopoly States met in Chicago, demanded that either Pennsylvania raise prices 4% or that distillers cut prices to other monopoly States 4%. Pennsylvania refused...