Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King asked to see their hunting licenses. Startled, the two men fumbled in their gunning coats. Chaplain Phillips produced his license first. It was entirely in order. Pasted on it, as required by a law enacted by Congress in 1934, was a $1 Federal hunting stamp, proceeds from the sale of which are used to buy and develop land for wildfowl refuges. But when Gunner Van Devanter produced his license, Warden King's brows went...
...SALE: Cedar Island, .947 acre off Cedar Point, L. I., in the strait between Gardiners Bay and Shelter Island Sound. Includes historic, 97-year-old lighthouse and nine-room granite keeper's house. No conveniences, but ideal for recluse, romantic or for summer home. Send bid before Jan. 15 to U. S. Treasury Dept., Washington...
Treasury officials expect the island to bring about $4,000. The average lighthouse sells for $1,750 to $2,500. Last sales were in July 1935 when five Maine lights went at prices ranging from $652 to $4,100. Expected to be a notable exception is Atlantic City's 82-year-old Absecon Lighthouse, also up for sale last week with bidding to close Jan. 5. After erosion had left the 167-ft. tower a perilous 75 ft. from shore, jetties were built, the sea restored its sand, the city sprawled out over the new land. Now Absecon stands...
...profit inured to the Vans, for the price was the same in each transaction- cost plus interest. But the Vans had paid the packers a boomtime price and values had melted considerably by the time MOP got the properties. The sale was subject to ICC approval, yet some $16,000,000 worth of the contracts were so drawn that the seller could not lose. If the ICC denied MOP permission to make the acquisition, that railroad had to make good any loss suffered by the seller, Terminal Shares, in disposing of the properties elsewhere...
...last five years expansion has been going on in various parts of the U. S. and Mexico where the superior Dow processes could be put to good use. Last week, to replace capital spent during the past year principally for plant and laboratory construction, Dow Chemical offered for sale through Manhattan's Edward B. Smith & Co. a $5,000,000 issue of 15-year debentures which will yield only 3% per year...