Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the bidding reached ?100,000 ($280,000), the bulky old gentleman in the puce-and-green-striped tie emitted a genteel "whew," and he blinked his eyes incredulously at every ?10,000 jump thereafter. The work on sale last week at Sotheby's in London was his: Rembrandt's brooding St. Bartholomew, one of the most important Rembrandts still left in private hands. The final price of $532,000 fell well short of the $2,300,000 paid last fall by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still...
...Registration, Memorial Hall, Mixer Dance Tickets on sale, Memorial Hall...
...Registration, Memorial Hall (last day) Mixer Dance Tickets on sale, Mem. Hall...
...weather for poor corn yields ("The crop was pilfered, stolen, and yet you say weather prevented growing a good harvest?"). But by the time of the next harvest, Podgorny could report better news. With a smile, he told Khrushchev at the October congress that the Ukraine had doubled its sale of grain to the state, and had "honorably passed its examination." So had Podgorny. In April he was named to the government Presidium...
...stillborn babies. The tiny glands are sent to one of three university laboratories. There, after five or six days of exquisitely delicate chemical processes, each gland yields about one twenty-five-thousandth of an ounce of HGH. Because of its scarcity, HGH is only available for research, not for sale...