Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liquor licenses must be advertised publicly before the Board of License Commissioners can approve their sale. According to Miss Blanche Ryan, secretary to the Board, the license was advertised once, in the papers...
Hamilton billed the deal as the biggest sale since World War II. It pushes Communist China from nothing to third among Canada's grain customers (behind Britain and Japan), and will probably keep West Coast handlers busy until fall clearing the shipment, which will take upward of 100 ships to move...
Detroit's automakers look on the new sales development as a threat to the dealer organizations they have carefully built up over the years, and most dealers disapprove of the practice. Chevrolet recently sent a letter to all its dealers warning of the "pitfalls of the 'quick-profit' bootleg sale." Subtle pressure from Detroit on dealers who sell to discounters (such as reviewing the dealers' financing) and concerted action by dealers' associations have held the discounters in check, and in some places forced them out of business...
...years, a weather-beaten FOR SALE sign has drooped dispiritedly in front of the big Victorian house. With its crazy turrets, towers and gables, the place half-frightens Katie Charles, a pony-tailed 13-year-old who lives across the street and pretends that the house is a haunted castle. One day the sign is gone, and a contagious whisper races along the sycamore-lined street that the house might as well be haunted. The first Negro family is moving into Sheridan Avenue in the placid Midwest suburb of Courtland Park...
...humors" produced by yellow fever, machines for producing static electricity (fatal to some rats), systems of government and ventilation, the geology of Pennsylvania, the weather, the making of glass, the weaving of cloth, and the proper way to build a fort. When he was not advertising muskets for sale he was procuring them for his Pennsylvania militia, drawing up the order of companies and ordering maneuvers on the next fair day after rain...