Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eccentricity, and an ardor for collecting art. Last week, in the German city of Diisseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause. On display were 343 first-class paintings and sculptures from his fabled collection-and every single one of them was up for sale...
...present, many a company benefits from the regulation that allows any profit on the sale of fully depreciated equipment to be taxed as a capital gain instead of at the higher income tax rate. A substantial majority of the firms queried by the Treasury, both big and small businesses, indicated they would readily forgo that windfall in return for more liberal depreciation allowances. They said that present tax laws assume too long a useful life for most machinery. They argued that if businessmen could set their own estimates, they would be more accurate, permit business to speed spending...
This weekend's gift, made by an anonymous donor who had already sent in $5,000 just before Christmas, resulted from the sale of 50 shares of DuPont stock. The donor subtracted what he had originally paid, leaving the Club a profit of slightly over $100 on each share...
Plastic Fences. Strips of woven Saran plastic to be interlaced between posts to make a translucent fence were put on sale by Weblite, Inc., Mineola, L.I. Colors are turquoise, green or white. Price for 50 ft. of 5-ft.-high fence, installed-yourself...
...CHILD BUYER, by John Hersey. Not consistently on target but full of troubling truth, this satire snaps and slashes at the antihumanist trend that sees men as tools rather than souls. The Swiftian plot concerns parents, educators and politicians who acquiesce in the actual sale of a boy genius to industry...