Word: sales
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Gauguin died of a heart attack in 1903 in his hut on the island of Hiva Oa. A sale of his possessions was held after an "expert" in Papeete had rummaged through the watercolors and drawings, throwing most of them "on the rubbish heap-that is, their proper place." Among the surviving papers was a fragmentary note reading, "I am now down and out, defeated by poverty." It was sold in Paris...
...Parisian cafe, strolling guitar musicians and an outdoor art sale will highlight the Art Marketplace Saturday at 42 Brattle St. Oil paintings, water-colors, pottery and jewelry created by students and faculty at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education will be sold from...
...students who appeared at the Plympton St. scooter lot yesterday evening to snatch up one of the abandoned vehicles on sale by the HCUA were in for a surprise. Instead of a honey-mouthed auctioneer, they met a taciturn University cop, slowly shaking his head...
Even if the longest embargo in modern times is softened, how much can the U.S. expect to increase its sales to the Communists? Under czars and commissars alike, Russia has never been a major U.S. customer because it had neither enough hard money nor desirable goods to offer in return. Before the one-shot U.S. wheat deal, the largest recent U.S. sale to Russia was $4,000,000 worth of inedible tallow. Now Khrushchev says that he wants to buy billions of dollars' worth of industrial plants and equipment to make chemicals, fertilizer and other products. For that...
...companies intend to fight hard to beat the charges. "It is common knowledge in the milling industry," said Chairman Philip W. Pillsbury of Pillsbury, "that a good deal of bakery flour is sold at a loss." Since the Korean war, says he, the millers' profit margin in the sale of bakery flour has held at 1% of the retail price of a loaf of white bread. Actually, argues Pillsbury, the Government has a bigger hand than the millers in setting prices. The cost of wheat makes up five-sixths of the flour price, and Government crop-support programs...