Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 100 buyers representing the world's top fur houses converged on the Seattle Fur Exchange to compete for Alaska's initial harvest. In less than two hours of bidding, Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, who revived the trade as a state-owned enterprise, presided over the sale of 826 skins. The record-breaking top price: $2,300 per skin, paid by George Liebes of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus for four male pelts, each more than 5 ft. long and 30 in. wide...
...there public pressure for correction. Such was the case in Arkansas last week. For years, Arkansas legislators have been referring to their two large convict farms as a "model system." The farms turned in a handsome profit that averaged about $1,400,000 over the years from the sale of farm products, and few prisoners ever seemed to escape. But the realities of prison life in Arkansas were far removed from the comfortable assumption. The point was brought home painfully when three skeletons, one decapitated, one with its skull crushed, the third with its legs broken back, were unearthed from...
...sure, Toll probably has a bigger problem than most campus presidents. At a hearing of the committee-convened in the wake of the predawn arrest at Stony Brook last month of 38 people who were charged with sale or possession of drugs-he admitted that perhaps 20% of his 5,200 students have used drugs, mostly marijuana. Toll assured the committee that "we cannot tolerate illegal activities," warned that students involved in the arrests can expect expulsion...
...benefit from any upturn in Detroit, and they sorely need some such boost. Hurt by competition from foreign imports and the cost of new equipment, most steel companies suffered sharp earnings declines in 1967. Net income of U.S. Steel, the industry leader, dropped 31%, to $172,499,331 on sales of $4.07 billion. While that decline was a year-long affair, several rival steelmakers-including Bethlehem, Republic and Inland-showed fourth-quarter profit increases as customers started stockpiling in anticipation of a possible steel strike next summer. Other metals companies, among them Kaiser Aluminum and Reynolds Metals, also skidded...
Tickets for the United States National Singles championships which will be held at Harvard Saturday, Sunday, and Monday go on sale Saturday morning at 9 a.m. at Hemenway Gym. The special rate for Harvard students and Faculty...