Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky drew closer for ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, 66, now tending his manifold private interests in Seattle. The State Supreme Court of Washington upheld his conviction for pocketing $1,900 from the sale of a used Cadillac that was owned by the trusting Teamsters...
London's auctioneers thought they had seen the ultimate in auctions a year ago, when a Rubens brought $770,000. But there seems no end to the art-market boom, or limits to its surprises. Last week Sotheby's put up for sale a 168-piece silver service that had never been shown outside Berkeley Castle. It is the work of the great French Silversmith Jacques Roettiers and part of it was probably ordered by the third Earl of Berkeley for the 21st birthday of his son in 1737. Rare and beautiful as it surely is, it fetched...
...Courage!' we said to ourselves when we had finished thinking up this one." said New York's B. Altman & Co. department store in an ad last week as it put on sale the first short-sleeved suit...
...Gaulle had hoped to combat the rising cost of living by an all-out overhaul of France's antiquated food distribution system, under which nearly every vegetable or farm animal produced in France must be shipped to Paris' Les Halles market for sale or reshipment to the provinces. But the reform has been put off because of the cost of prosecuting the Algerian war. Last week embattled artichoke growers at St.-Pol-de-Leon dumped 800 tons of artichokes into a quarry and doused them with diesel oil in protest at the fall of the farm price...
Last week one of the two known surviving copies of the global map turned up for sale at London's famed auction house, Sotheby & Co. Owned by a Polish count, the map (11⅜ in. by 16⅜ in.) roused a gleam in the eye of Manhattan Rare Book Dealer Hans P. Kraus. He pushed the price up to $35,000 and walked off with...