Word: sales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television with a commercial sponsor: the Ford Motor Co. While the session lasts (probably more than a month), Ford will pick up the tab for 15 hours a week (CBS-TV, 11 a.m.1 p.m., 3-4 p.m. Mon. through Fri.) over a network of 21 stations-the largest time sale in TV history...
...sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price of the last sale. Around the floor word spread that the House of Morgan and the New York banks had put a cushion under the market. The market rallied. It looked as if the Morgan "miracle" had staved off disaster. "Business," announced Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W.Mellon, "is fundamentally sound." The Cleveland Trust...
...panic; by day's end an incredible 16,410,030 shares had been dumped, capping the selling that had wiped out an estimated $25 billion in stock values. Not until 2½ hours after the market's close did the tickers catch up and carry the final sale. There was no longer any attempt by bankers or anybody else to stem the collapse. In just six days the whole world of easy prosperity had been buried...
Senior tickets for the Yale game go on sale this morning. Frank O. Lunden of the H.A.A. announced last night that there will be no change in the usual method of ticket-purchasing. Men may pick up as many tickets for other students as they want...
Fourteen prospective buyers, including a big insurance firm and MIT, are already bidding for the old headquarters. Announcement of the sale will come as soon as appraisers can assess the value. Once the new owner moves in, there's a good chance he will be able to hire back some of the help Lever will soon be dismissing...