Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sydney, Australia, Arthur Sale was arrested after he lost $36 betting at Randwick race track, grabbed $1,226 from a bookmaker's bag at the track "on the spur of the moment...
...advance ticket sales: "I was talking to Henry Fonda about his play which had such an advance sale. He said it is like dying to go to the theater night after night when the audience sits there and says 'show me.'... theater is turning into a business and it's terrible...authors should write and not care about being produced... I am an author's girl, but I have no respect for the author who lets himself be murdered during production...and when young actors break through today, in spite of the agents, it is a miracle...
Wooden Wallpaper. A wallpaper with a .003-in. covering of grained and stained walnut, birch or cherry wood was put on sale by Chicago's Denst & Soderlund Associates, Inc. The paper, made in West Germany, comes in rolls, or in squares for parquet effect on walls. Price...
...where the Negroes' peaceful resistance to segregation sparked the bitterly successful 1956 bus boycott (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), city fathers sold off the last animals in the Oak Park Zoo four months after a U.S. district court ruled that segregation in the park was unconstitutional. The animal sale marked the end of Montgomery's park system, left the city's 45,000 Negro and white children without a public swimming pool, tennis court or woodland glade...
...Federal Trade Commission, too many U.S. businessmen fail to draw a line between legitimate puffing to make a sale and illegal lying about their product to deceive the customer. On the theory that informed and skeptical consumers are the first line of defense against the cheats, the commission last week held its first Washington Conference on Public Deception, attended by representatives of 47 civic, professional and business organizations. FTC Chairman Earl W. Kintner said the commission would go all out to open its voluminous files on "trickery in the marketplace" to public view. "In the blunt language of the street...