Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this, the Lewises claimed, was be cause they had offered their property for sale to Negroes. But local cops had their doubts. For one thing, Walnut had no history whatever of racial discord. For another, evidence indicated that the fire in the Lewis home had not been caused by outsiders. For still another thing, the police had only the Lewises' say-so that all those other incidents had ever really happened...
...Unworthy Friar. It was the sale of indulgences for good works that touched off Martin Luther to publish his 95 theses at Wittenberg. As a devout young Augustinian friar, Luther had been obsessed by the thought of his unworthiness as a sinful man before God, and no routine of works, confession, penance or asceticism could mitigate his spiritual anxiety. But seated one day in the study of the monastery, as he later related, Luther suddenly gained an insight into what St. Paul meant by the just living by faith. Luther interpreted Paul to mean that the sinner was justified only...
...Among really valuable items are the 1804 silver dollar, which brought $36,000 at its last sale, and the Brasher Doubloon, which the coin department of Gimbels in Manhattan has insured...
...McGinnis' railroading career came in for more criticism-this time from the law. A Boston federal grand jury indicted McGinnis, B. & M. President Daniel A. Benson, Vice President George F. Glacy and a railroad equipment broker named Henry Mersey, charging that they had engineered kickbacks in the sale of B. & M. surplus cars. In 1958, the indictment charged, another railroad broker offered $500,000 for ten passenger and baggage cars that B. & M. wanted to sell. Pat McGinnis blocked the sale. Instead, the B. & M. sold its cars to Mersey, whose office is in the same building...
...have to democratize business," said Harvard-educated Gaston Azcarraga, 35, as he announced a $1,600,000 sale of stock in Fabricas Auto-Mex, which is 55% owned by his wealthy family and 33% by Chrysler, whose cars and trucks it assembles in Mexico. The sale fulfills government directives to spread ownership and to increase the "local content" of autos assembled in Mexico. Auto-Mex (15,308 vehicles a year) will use the money it takes in to build a $15 million engine plant at Toluca, 40 miles from Mexico City, from which Chryslers 60% made in Mexico will eventually...