Word: sales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leather scrolls which the Bedouins offered for sale looked interesting to the monks of the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem. A couple of goatherds had found eight of the scrolls, wrapped in cloth and hidden in urns, in a cave near the Dead Sea. The monks bought four scrolls* and last February Archbishop Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel brought them to the U.S. for study and identification...
Johnson went on to say that the overall sale of tickets this year has been disappointing. The Army game should have been a sellout and the Dartmouth game should have drawn much more heavily than it did, he said. Attributing the decline in attendance to the team's poor record, Johnson said that the loss to Columbia was the one which really hurt...
With no warning to FRB, Transamerica President Sam Husbands announced a sale of 1,199,554 Bank of America shares on the open market, to lower Bank of America holdings from 22.8% to 11.1%. The stock sale, said Husbands, would bring in some $50 million which would be used "to liquidate loans" that were necessary to buy the stock originally "and to provide working capital...
What close-cropped, drawling Sam Husbands, 58, did not mention, but what everybody understood, was that the stock sale would take much of the steam out of FRB's drive to prove Transamerica a monopoly. Though Transamerica officials insisted that the stock sale was only "coincidental" to FRB's prosecution, it looked like a shrewd coincidence engineered by Sam Husbands...
Nevertheless, FRB indicated last week that it wanted more concessions from Transamerica and was not yet ready to drop its case. But Transamerica was hopeful. As one official cautiously put it: "If [the stock sale] results in the board doing anything, we can't imagine it would be adverse to our interests...