Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ominous words of Hugh Johnson last week. They reflected the worry of many a politician in Washington: the expectation that revenues for fiscal 1937 would fall $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 below estimates, the fact that Secretary Morgenthau found it necessary to resume borrowing, beginning with the sale of $50,000,000 worth of short-term bills this week. In the Senate, Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson spoke out almost as pessimistically as Hugh Johnson...
Offered for sale in Washington last week was the four-story National Republican Clubhouse, purchased for $150,000 in prosperous 1929 by the National Capital Republican Club. Reported the careful Associated Press: "Two . . . veteran club members, who declined to be quoted by name, attributed the closing to the Democratic victory in November...
...today an artist of even moderate reputation has half the product of his studio almost continuously on tour at loan exhibitions of dealers and provincial museums. For this he gets nothing except the vague possibility of making a sale, must stand damage and insurance on his own pictures. To force galleries to pay rental fees no matter how small on exhibited pictures became an important issue with a group of artists known as the American Artists' Congress...
Tickets will go on sale at the Union the end of next week and will be priced at $4.50 per couple and $3.50 stag. The last week before the dance the charge will jump a dollar to $5.50 per couple and $4.50 for a single ticket...
...balloon skirts of the 1850s to celebrate the store's eightieth anniversary. Meanwhile, for the first time in its history, Meier & Frank proposed to let its employes and the public in on ownership of the business, filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission a prospectus for sale by the stockholders of 183,928 (one fifth) of their 919,640 common shares...