Word: sales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seats for the swimming meet have been sold. There will be 400 additional rush seats which will go on sale at 6:30 o'clock, and standing room for 200 more...
...where naturally he meets many of the most prominent British politicians. As to the emeralds, I should have added that Garrard's the jewelers who bought them from Princess Victoria, sent them to Cartier's in Paris, and it was actually Cartier's who made the sale, on behalf of Garrard's to King Edward. As I said before, these stones are very large and magnificent, but have many flaws. The lady who gave me this information, is a personal friend of Queen Mary and members of the Royal Family, but I cannot tell...
...Spector & Myznikov, well knowing that the State Music Stores have nothing like enough phonograph records to supply the wants of Moscow's phonograph addicts, neglected to stay away from those stores as the State desires patriots to do in order that some records may always be "offered for sale" and appearances kept...
...July 1935.* Last autumn, Mrs. Roosevelt began dictating her autobiography, carried it up to the Democratic National Convention of 1924, showed the manuscript to Franklin Roosevelt when it was done. The President suggested no changes, and Mrs. Roosevelt's dapper literary agent, George T. Bye, made the sale not to Crowell's Companion but to Curtis Publishing Co.'s Home Journal. Proceeds of Mrs. Roosevelt's writing and broadcasting have hitherto been donated to various charities. What charity would receive the Journal's undoubtedly large check (probably upwards of $50,000), Mrs. Roosevelt last week...
...which has a bit at least a foot long, and which weighs ten pounds or more, was sold by Lincoln to a cattle drover who visited his country store. When the customer asked about the axe. Lincoln replied, "I have never offered it for sale, but have no particular use for it anymore, and if anyone wanted it enough to give me one dollar and four bits for it they can have...