Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday paper. But the Eagle began making up its lost ground, now has a combined daily circulation of 183,191. In recent years, the Beacon has lost money steadily, and at last the surviving Levand brother, John, 69, let it be known that the paper was for sale. Among the buyers attracted was Eagle Publisher Marcellus Murdock, 77. Last week Murdock acquired the Beacon for $900,000 cash and assumption of the Beacon's debts-about...
...though he shocked his contemporaries, he ranks today as the greatest Belgian painter of modern times. This week a good sampling of his work went on display at Manhattan's World House Galleries, and a handsome new book, James Ensor, by Paul Haesaerts (Abrams; $17.50), was on sale in the bookstores...
...more than $5,000,000, he sold his 200-year lease (with options) on Manhattan's posh St. Regis Hotel to Mexico's Cesar Balsa, 37, a onetime bellhop whose nine-hotel chain in Mexico City and Acapulco is the largest in Central America. The sale completed the financial legerdemain begun last February when Webb & Knapp bought the St. Regis for $14 million. Two months later it sold the hotel to Manhattan's Kratter Corp. for $11 million, kept operating control. Webb & Knapp's estimated profit on the St. Regis deals...
...fourth-tallest office building, to London's City & Central Investments, Ltd. for $15 million. Last year Webb & Knapp bought 40 Wall and the land beneath it for $32 million, sold the land and the building to Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for $20 million, retaining the lease. With the sale of the lease last week, Webb & Knapp's profit on the 40 Wall transactions is estimated...
...pocket-size portable record player. Put on sale by Emerson, the Wondergram plays all sizes of LP records without turntable, is powered by four flashlight batteries, weighs less than 2 Ibs. Price...