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Word: sales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second year of this NSA "experiment" is 1500 cards sold, Allen E. Kline '50, head of the drive, announced yesterday. Holders of 400 cards sold earlier this year will be given transfers so their cards will be valid until September 1950, the expiration date of the cards now on sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Starts Drive to Sell Purchase Cards | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Nepera Chemical Co. of Yonkers, N.Y. came close with neohetramine. Several doctors reported it less toxic, and toxic to fewer people, than other drugs in the same family. In September the Food & Drug Administration, satisfied that the average customer would not be upset by the recommended dosage, authorized its sale over the counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Over the Counter | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...intricacies of the trade tempt Peter to make extravagant offers. On occasion he'll promise a pair of boots, free, to the visitor who can successfully pare a long bootlace from a patch of leather, or drive ten wooden pages into a boot sale without a miss. The latter offer was taken up by a Harvard skier who failed on his first try. The boot hungry student bought a wooden block, some pegs, and a mallet and practiced for a week. His return bout resulted in a near miss and a sigh relief from the Limmer family...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Boots, Beer Make Limmer Tradition | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

Yale in the only other American university which has a Gutenberg Bible but Harvard officials say that the New Haven copy is not in "quite as fine condition" as the one here. At its last public sale, before Yale was given the copy, that Gutenberg Bible brought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Gutenberg Bible Near Best | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

Brynteson said that for his purposes the sale could be limited to people under 14. He just thought that "As long as the H.A.A. is going in debt, they might as well go in debt with a full Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Suggests HAA Sell Gamins Extra Game Seats | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

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