Word: sales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sale of intoxicating liquors became legal in Kansas for the first time in 69 years...
...221B Baker Street something did happen that not even Miss Bell's English teacher had foreseen. The first issue of the London Mystery Magazine, a high-brow whodunit monthly, was published from that address, and 40,000 copies were on sale last week (at 50?) on newsstands all over Britain. Soon, London Mystery will invade the U.S. market, to match its wits against Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (circ. 150,000), which now dominates the mystery-magazine field...
Named with Tucker were Harold A. Karsten, alias Abraham Karatz, a promoter who once served a jail term for bank embezzlement conspiracy; former Investment Banker Floyd D. Cerf, whose firm had a net worth of only $87,352, yet made $2,500,000 on the sale of Tucker stock; and five former Tucker directors...
...have bridged the gap between an idea on paper and an actual system in operation. The job, of course, is not perfect in every aspect, but it provides a firm foundation on which next year's committees can build a bigger and better system, and of course increase the sale of cards...
...crux of the editorial criticism was on the low sales record at Harvard, although here too the picture is not nearly as black as portrayed. In the first place we could sell cards only to members of the College, thus making the maximum possible sale 5000, not 12,000 as was claimed. However we set a realistic quota of 1000 cards to be sold, and we sold 550 cards. We will be the first to admit that this is low, bat if considered in its true context as a part of the whole, which was quite successful...