Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese government reacted with moral lectures ("It is wrong to make a profit out of what is harmful to others") and threatened to ban the sale of rhubarb to Europeans, relying on the firmly held Chinese belief that all foreigners, and especially the English, would die of constipation if deprived of rhubarb's laxative qualities...
Profits, Not Power. Despite inheriting a stable of Hearst regulars like George E. Sokolsky and Dorothy Kilgallen from the Times, the News quickly discovered that the $10 million purchase price provided no guarantee for picking up the Times's readership. Acting quickly upon rumors of the sale, the rival Free Press raided the Times's circulation department, hired away 125 employees ranging from branch managers to newsboys. As a lure to former Times readers, the Free Press also began printing an afternoon "family edition," which is being sent to the Times's old delivery stations. Goaded into...
...sale of the Times continues the cutback of the Hearst chain since control of the empire passed to Hearst Corporation President Richard Berlin after the death of William Randolph Hearst in 1951. More interested in profits than press power, Berlin got rid of the Chicago American and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News. Says one Hearst executive: "For years our strong papers-Baltimore, San Antonio, Seattle, Los Angeles-have been drained by losing operations. In the last two years we have decided on concentrating our resources in those...
Despite the mysterious odor that has plagued Lamont Library for some time, students were eagerly crowding the Library for the book sale yesterday. But concerned Library officials have already taken steps to investigate the smell...
...sale will last from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. tonight, and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow. All books will be priced at 50 cents until 12 noon tomorrow, when they will be 25 cents...