Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foreigners are making the most of Napoleon too. The Austrians produce huge red, green and gold candles in the form of the imperial eagle. The Spanish are forging Napoleon's "battle sword" at Toledo-for sale in France, since he was never very popular in Spain. The British fabricate "Napoleon soap," with a color reproduction inside of David's famous painting of the Emperor on a horse. The soap shrinks, of course, but the portrait of Napoleon stays. "Imagine being able to wash your hands with Napoleon," exults Xavier Moreschi, the chief Corsican commercializer of the bicentennial...
...which was sacrificed in the desperate effort to get the show open on time. But their reduction in scale and the last-minute pruning serve only to concentrate our attention on the twin concerns which have been announcing themselves in his work with increasing vehemence at least since White Sale, his first unabashedly personal production: The vision of Mayer as director of showman and the vision of Mayer as artist, poet of the physically tormented. Perhaps because there was so little time to moderate or reshape, and so little time to draw on the formidable talents of his friends, Mayer...
...From your predictions on the potential use of the moon, it seems that the moon could become merely a new addition to earth's commercial schemes. We are so damn practical. We always have to ring up a sale for everything...
...bankers to make margin calls, and it is even pinching a number of big firms. As it scurried to raise new funds to meet New York Stock Exchange capital requirements, McDonnell & Co. went so far as to sell one of its three seats on the Big Board. The sale brought only $375,000, which represented a $140,000 drop in seat prices since April. Other Wall Street firms that have had capital difficulties include Nuveen and First Hanover Corp...
...Allston, serves as their temple. The first members of Krishna Consciousness rented it in October, 1967. Inside is a small room decorated with painting of the Krishna mythology, India print material and pictures of the swami. There are i of the Bhagavad-Gita and records of chants for sale...