Word: sales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stopping the sale of U.S. bonds to banks...
...local customs. It has few basements and fewer furnaces and almost every house has an "incinerator" in the backyard-a reinforced concrete stove with a screened stack for burning rubbish and gaper. Its real-estate men still hang up strings of flags to advertise a house for sale. Its love of the unusual extends even to the young -high-school boys at Van Nuys began dyeing their hair green this spring, to the dismay of parents and teachers...
...banished slot machines and pinball games-though most of them reap peared outside the city limits. He abolished other municipal evils-the sale of civil-service promotions and the use of the city zoning ordinance to squeeze bribes from commercial enterprises...
Change of Pace. In Missoula, Mont., a student veteran advertised in the Montana State University newspaper: "For Sale: Excellent courting car . . . Owner now needs baby carriage...
...deadlock had thus far prevented sale of a single asset, though 1,100 cartel agreements had been ordered dissolved. Now that some plants were ready for sale, there was another obstacle-a shortage of German capital to buy them. Much of the available capital in Germany was controlled by the cartelists. But the Military Government hoped that enough safeguards could be set up to keep the plants from being secretly bought by the old cartelists or being drawn into new cartels...