Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wished to get a ticket to the Harvard-Army hockey game. The only notice of the time of the ticket sale was put on the door of their building a day before the sale. If I hadn't accidentally gone by there I never would have learned of it, and missed out completely. Well, I waited in line for 45 minutes and was tenth in line. Did I get a good ticket? No. My sent was at the far extreme end of the sidelines--behind the net--on the Army side! Is this the best the HAA can give...
Today, I went to get a ticket for the ECAC hockey games. There was no notice of the ticket sale anywhere except on the door. It had been put up there only that morning. They were to go on sale at 3 p.m., but the line began forming at 1:30 p.m. By the time the windows opened the number in line far exceeded the meagre supply the HAA had for us. At 2 p.m. a woman showed up and said that she had just called the office and they had said come at 2 p.m. She knocked...
...highly competitive business of toy retailing, where discount prices and special promotions are part of the gamesmanship, New York's F.A.O. Schwarz prospers by clinging to merchandising methods as staid as those of nearby Tiffany's. Century-old Schwarz has never had a sale in its famed Fifth Avenue store, where two spacious floors are packed with 12,000 toys, and prices range from 15? for a whistle to $2,000 for a furnished, four-room puppet theater. The store has refused to hire a costumed Santa at Christmas ever since Founder Frederick Schwarz ruled that...
...India, and 25% of the store's toys are imports. A fulltime staff of Schwarz toymakers turns out specially built toys that include such childish delights as "a city-mouse house" and a cousinly "country-mouse house." Two weeks ago, celebrating its 100th birthday, Schwarz put on sale $50,000 worth of antique toys, including a 75-year-old Jonah and the Whale bank ($100) and a 100-piece German miniature kitchen ($1,000). By the end of last week, $10,000 worth had already been sold...
...test vaccines against viruses already known to cause many of the infections that afflict the average American three or more times a year, keep an estimated 125,000 workers (and probably even more schoolchildren) at home every day, cost industry about $3 billion a year, and spur the sale of at least $100 million worth of tablets, drops, sprays, gargles and unguents...