Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past several Cambridge City Councilors have objected to sale of the site to the University, which is exempt from property taxes, because they said it would take taxable land off the city rolls. However, McLernon stated that the MTA has every right to sell and that "Cambridge has no call on the land...
...single canvas was the $134,000 paid by Swedish Collector Carl-Bertel Nathhorst for Femme Accroupie, a somber painting of Picasso's "blue" period. And by evening's end, Sotheby's had broken another record: the Picassos brought in $636,720, the biggest single sale of a living artist. Between the Picassos, ten Modiglianis and an assortment of Crises, Soutines, Braques, Rouaults and one Matisse, Collector Sarlie netted more than $1,000,000. What did he intend to start buying now? A tip from the top: Abstractionists Hartung, Soulages, De Stae...
Prices of newer homes, which have traditionally increased yearly, are merely standing still. "It's definitely a buyers' market," said Frederick Hastings, president of Chicago's Homefinders Inc. "There have been more houses on sale than at any time in the last five or six years. Tight money had a great deal to do with it. So did the slowing state of economic activity...
Next January Maidenform will put on sale a new line of women's swimsuits equipped with Maidenform bras. Mrs. Rosenthal also thinks that there is a market for sleeping brassieres, hopes to produce a looser Maidenform for the bedroom. The company is also studying synthetic fibers that may eventually replace rubber elastic. From the girl of twelve to the woman of 80, Ida Rosenthal (one of her own best customers) believes that nature can still stand a lot of improving...
...more mechanically minded, do-it-yourself dinosaur construction kits are on sale. These kits provide a mass of miniature plastic Tyrannosaurus Rex bones from which the prospective paleontologist can construct his own small scale dinosaur skeleton...