Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, the bill approved by the Committee removes a number of restrictions on the conduct of business on Sunday. It would permit any store with fewer than three employees to open on Sunday, allow real estate agents to show residential property, for sale or rental, and legalize the operation of gift shops...
...Blue Laws, first passed in 1692, aroused violent controversy last year when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their legality in a case involving a Kosher supermarket. (The proposed bill would permit the sale and delivery of Kosher meats on Sunday...
...Bryn Mawr book sale has been running for four years now, and the response is always the same. 10,000 to 12,000 books are sold in two and a half days, netting almost $3000 for the Bryn Mawr scholarship fund. Books are donated by Bryn Mawr alumnae (e.g. Mmes Nathan Pusey, Merle Fainsod, David Riesman) and their friends, marked at bargain prices by Mrs. L. H. Butterfield (Mr. Buttefield is editor of the Adams Papers), and sold to first comers at the church on Garden Street...
...abundance of caution," read the letter from Cincinnati's Wm. S. Merrell Co. to 230,000 U.S. physicians, "we have determined that the sale of tripara-nol should be discontinued until all possible controversy is put to rest." Thus last week almost half a million patients learned that they could no longer hope to cut down the cholesterol circulating in their blood - and perhaps reduce the danger of heart attacks - simply by swallowing a daily 35^ triparanol capsule...
Over the past decade, the corporation has skipped 28 (out of 40) dividends on its preferred stock, and its deficit has climbed alarmingly: $2.4 million in 1959, nearly $6.5 million in 1960. To reduce costs, Hearst officers have ruthlessly winnowed its newspaper ranks by merger or sale, most recently in Los Angeles, when Hearst's morning Examiner vanished into its afternoon paper, the Herald-Express (TIME, Jan. 12). The annual report also warned stockholders to expect a serious loss in the first quarter of this year-partly because of "heavy expenses" incurred in the Los Angeles merger...