Word: sales
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...trials. In 1962 he again overruled medical protests to help out in Columbia's unsuccessful bid to be the U.S.'s Cup defender. But now it is over. Last week, acting as executor for the estate of his brother Paul, who had owned Columbia, Corny announced the sale of the twelve-meter yacht to a California syndicate. The group plans to be the first from the West Coast to enter the Cup trials, will go up against two-year-old Nefertiti and a pair of brand-new yachts. Said Corny with undisguised longing: "Columbia is going to give...
...Sofferenza, was built with the help of $400,000 raised by New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. In the piazza outside the church where Padre Pio said Mass and heard confessions, hand-painted tiles bearing the padre's bearded face and other tasteless souvenirs were on sale...
...office accounting machines and computers are selling well in most of the world, particularly in Japan. A worldwide building boom is pushing up sales of earth-moving equipment; Caterpillar Tractor's first-quarter exports are up 17%. Because of increased mining activity, mainly in Canada, South America and Africa, export sales of the Denver Equipment Co., one of the leading U.S. makers of mining equipment, rose 45% in the first quarter above their year-ago level. The recent sale of 29 Boeing 727 medium-range jetliners to foreign airlines has reversed a three-year decline in U.S. aircraft exports...
Thomas H. D. Mahoney, another Cambridge Councillor at the conference with MTA officials, also said that the sale of the Yards this summer is "very likely...
...scene at the end of the first act. Alone on the stage, she telephones an acquaintance to offer her a subscription to a pulp magazine, and when she speaks the listener mocks her smallness yet nearly weeps that a Southern Lady should rejoice so at finally making the sale. There is another extraordinary scene later, when Amanda tries to entertain Jim O'Connor, the "gentleman-caller," and her empty Southern sweetness is revealed. Miss Field avoids a caricature and keeps just enough of the Old South in her reading to show Amanda's desperateness...