Word: sales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anything from an office intercom system to a complete telephone exchange are likely to think first of Sweden's L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Last week Ericsson engineers were installing new telephone networks from Egypt to Iceland, and in Stockholm, company officials jubilantly announced a $20 million sale of automatic switching equipment to neighboring Denmark...
...more suspensions of minor Agriculture officials came to light. The men were office managers for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service-the agency embroiled in Billie Sol's fraudulent cotton-allotment dealings. They were ousted in connection with $28,000 worth of illegal rice-allotment sales in Texas' Brazoria and Matagorda counties over the past three years. Both cotton and rice allotments are valuable, since without them farmers are subject to unprofitably stiff penalties for planting and marketing-but their sale is distinctly illegal. Smarting at the new scandal. Freeman turned the case over...
Said FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick: "This bestselling book was deliberately created and used to promote these worthless safflower oil capsules for the treatment of obesity, cardiovascular diseases and other serious conditions. One of its main purposes was to promote the sale of a commercial product in which Dr. Taller had a financial interest." To this, Simon & Schuster retorted: "There is nothing in the record which could possibly support these vicious and irresponsible innuendoes...
...concluding three mixer dances to introduce summer school students to each other will be held this week. Tickets will be on sale every day at the social director's office (Matthews 4) and every evening at dinner in the Union...
...Fire Sale. Because it is legally difficult to lay off workers in the welfare states of Western Europe, European steelmen do not follow the U.S. practice of cutting production to keep prices up whenever demand slips; instead, the Europeans go right on pouring-and slash prices. By 1965, according to the best current estimates. Western Europe's steel capacity is likely to outrun its consumption by as much as 18 million tons. If that happens, some U.S. steelmen glumly anticipate a transatlantic invasion of European steel salesmen with open order books-and cut-rate prices...