Word: sales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jansen '50, president of the Harvard Young Republican Club today announced the publication of a new research bulletin. The True Republican, which went on sale at all House news-stands...
Last week part of the Schloss collection was on the move again. It was up for auction at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris, in the biggest art sale held in Europe since the war. Nearly an hour before the auctioning began, every little gilt chair in the great, red-velvet-draped gallery had been occupied. Bearded boulevardiers and ladies in fox furs vied for seats with dapper, sharp-eyed dealers from, far & near...
...half months ago, the National Student Association's Purchase Card System began operations at Harvard. There was a little preliminary publicity, and cards were on sale for a few days in the dining halls. Ever since, the project has been quietly dying on its feet...
Nobody but nobody was biting its nails like Gimbels. The Polaroid Land camera, which takes and prints a finished picture in one minute, was about to go on sale in Manhattan, and R. H. Macy & Co. had wangled a month's exclusive department-store rights. At its wit's end, Gimbels stealthily bought up a stock of the cameras from out-of-town stores where Polaroid was running test sales, and put in a classy window display. But as soon as Gimbels put the cameras on sale (at $89.75), Macy's sent a flying squad of shoppers...
...choice was a good one. As a director of the World Bank since 1947, Banker Black has been a strong force behind its conservative lending policies. Almost singlehanded, he put across the sale of $250 million in World Bank bonds at a time when U.S. investors were skeptical of the bank's future. With his help, the bank boosted its net for the first nine months of this fiscal year to $7,383,006 (v. $2,242,597 in the same 1948 period...