Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the exhibition is devoted to legislation or more properly royal decrees, affecting in various ways French shipping. There is an Act of 1635 providing for the rounding up "of tramps, vagabonds, and able-bodied unemployed to serve in the French Navy." One in 1756 ordered the immediate sale of British ships and cargoes captured in the Seven Years War. Another legalizes the slave trade from Africa...
...interest is a letter from Good-speeds' the Boston bookseller, crediting Hale with the revival of public interest in Melville's work, and specifically with the sale of 200 copies of "Moby Dick...
...trade and money at home when the fighting began. Steamed up by the Millis book and FORTUNE'S "Arms and the Men" (munitions-makers), the Senate peacemen got their start on the crest of the Italo-Ethiopian war scare. Whooped through Congress was a temporary resolution banning sale of U. S. arms to nations at war, empowering the President to forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerents' boats (TIME, Sept...
...costs $125. Buggymen sell to foreign government officials, who usually like them gaudy; to places like Bermuda and Mackinac where automobiles are prohibited; and to parts of the U. S. where roads are bad and people poor. Standard's president E. J. Knapp likes to tell of a sale in the South where a three-year-old Ford brought $12, a 30-year-old buggy...
...performances will begin at 8 o'clock in the Chapter House, 396 Harvard Street. On Friday formal dancing until two thirty o'clock will follow the performance. Tickets, on sale at Leavitt and Pierce's, will be $1.50 for Friday, $1 for Saturday...