Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul's businessmen had done themselves proud. Lacking the $100,000 munificence of red-whiskered Louis W. Hill,† who endowed the second and third St. Paul winter carnivals in 1916 and 1917, they had raised the expenses of this year's show by contributions and public sale of $1 carnival buttons. Citizens had saved their Christmas trees, donated them for street decorations. The WPA had furnished men to build a five-story ice palace, 191 ft. long, 70 ft. wide, 60 ft. high. Business and civic groups selected beauteous stenographers, secretaries, sales girls as their "queens...
Planes. More for spectacle than for sales at last week's Show were such ships as the Navy's Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over...
...Year when he turned out two more smashing box-office successes: Stage Door (with Edna Ferber) and You Can't Take It With You (with Moss Hart). The latter is Kaufman's 27th Broadway show. It is also his biggest sellout, since seats are on sale almost five months in advance, a Broadway record. Last week, however, in Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora's courtroom, an inside story of show business was unfolded, revealing that even Playwright Kaufman occasionally turns out a flop. For laymen the suit of Polisuk v. Kaufman shed new light on how some...
Farnsworth upped its definition from 343 lines to 441 some months ago. Neither company yet has any receiving sets for sale...
...last week reinforced when Parker Brothers began to distribute his second invention for idle hands. The new Darrow game is Bulls & Bears. Success of Monopoly, which was last week estimated to be in its sixth million and selling faster than ever, gave Bulls & Bears a pre-publication sale of 100,000, largest on record for a new game. Parker Brothers expect it and a more morbid diversion called Jury Box to be the major new rivals to contract bridge for 1937. Trend in U. S. games demonstrated by both Bulls & Bears and Jury Box is realism, which recurs in parlor...