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Word: sales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Felix Aylmer). What's more, it got these advantages at a spectacularly reduced rate. Shot on the cheap in Israel and Cyprus, Exodus cost less than $4,000,000 to put in the can and has already racked up, at reserved-seat prices ($1.50-$3.50), a record advance sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...plan). Last week, when her gallery - still dubbed the Downtown, although it has long since moved midtown -launched its 35th annual Christmas Exhibition with a price list from $35 to $1,000, a line of 30 people stood outside the door. "We keep our rich collectors away for this sale, or they'd come in and buy six paintings at a time," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art for Gifts' Sake | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

VOLKSWAGEN SHARES will go on sale next month to West German families in the lower-and middle-income groups. The shares will be limited to five per family, cost 350 marks ($83.30) each. As a result, 60% of Volkswagen will be owned by small investors; the other 40% will be split between the federal government and the state of Lower Saxony where Volkswagen factory is located...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...dirge in a Philadelphia court last week as lawyer after lawyer rose to voice the history-making plea for his clients. They were 19 major electrical manufacturers, including General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corp., charged by the Government with conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion in electrical equipment (TIME, Dec. 5). In the largest criminal case in the history of the antitrust laws, most of the companies were allowed to plead nolo contendere (no contest) in certain cases, provided they pleaded guilty in seven major cases. On each indictment the companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The $7 Billion Conspiracy | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...every package of Life Savers sold has a 5-in. Chicago Printed String tear-open tape), the company is developing new wrappings to titillate the giver. Sometimes they miss: last year a fancy line called "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh" hardly sold at all. This year the company put on sale the first laminated plastic wrappers. Sandwiched between the two-ply plastic films are pressed feathers, leaves, glittering sequins and colored confetti. A single sheet, 20 in. by 26 in., costs $1. Chicago Printed String was astonished when not only the Joneses but the people the Joneses keep up with snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Fit to Be Tied | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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