Word: sales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Solution. In Clay Center, Kans., citizens voted (1,026 to 677) for the sale of hard liquor, voted (1,468 to 254) against building a water-softener plant...
...priest contacted by phone at St. Paul's said that one of the priests connected with the Church and spoken to newsdealers about the sale of "From the Housetops." The cleric, who refused to give his name, said "we didn't want it around the Square...
Tickets, for the benefit performance only, will be proceed from $2.40 to $4.80. They are now on sale at the Harvard Cooperative Society and the Brattle Hall box office. Any other donations to the fund may be sent to the Theodore Spencer's Memorial Fund, 24 Milk Street, Boston. Checks should be made payable to Harvard University...
While doing so, "Doc" Webb ran smack up against the 1939 fair-trade laws which Florida, and 44 other states, had passed at the insistence of organized druggists as protection against price-cutting. When Webb put on a sale of Hiram Walker whisky below the fair-trade minimum...
...Appointment Only. A big buyer of African stones, Winston now mines diamonds in Venezuela, employs 400 cutters and polishers in Amsterdam, New York City and Puerto Rico, grosses $20 million a year. In his Manhattan showrooms, browsing is not encouraged; jewels are usually shown only by appointment. The average sale: $5,000. Winston also turns out engagement rings which Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. sells for as little as $37.50, and makes jewels for some 750 U.S. retail stores. Winston keeps track of every gem in his store at all times. If a single stone is mislaid, no one leaves...