Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coast, thus bringing a large part of Asia within the arc of their nuclear capability. One of the countries sure to be pinpointed on Chinese plotting maps is Japan, which, ironically, continues to supply Chinese buyers with the sophisticated technology that Peking needs for missilery, as in the recent sale of a vacuum furnace and rolling mill for titanium and tantalum rocket metals. Though Japan nominally subscribes to the Western list of goods forbidden for sale to the Communists, the lure of profits with the mainland has proved too great. Japan, in fact, has no investigative and inspection staff...
...firm bought the land, the authority changed its mind and approved its rezoning for manufacturing. McGowan sold the tract for a $167,000 profit. The scandal reached even to Newsday's doorstep. Its Suffolk editor, Kirk Price, who died last March, made $33,000 by a sale of land that he had bought for $50. He was assisted by the ubiquitous Kuss, who saw to it that a four-lane highway was routed past the property to enhance its value, and who arranged for a buyer. Said Newsday: "This is no longer a question...
Police arrested a Harvard Extension student in Montepelier, Vt., on Dec. 22 for possession and sale of marijuana...
...Unfortunately, last spring a plane belonging to a charter airline controlled by Peter Staechelin crashed, claiming 126 lives. As a result of lawsuits, the airline went bankrupt. To raise funds, Peter Staechelin persuaded the foundation, of which he was a principal officer, to put the two Picassos up for sale...
...annual acquisitions fund is only $65,000, but the Basel city government voted to contribute $1,372,000, provided that the remaining $578,000 could be raised from private sources. Dozens of townsfolk pitched in to raise the money, schoolchildren canvassed the streets, artists offered paintings and pottery for sale at a street fair, and the city's chemical industry, one of the biggest and richest in Europe, came to the rescue with a generous donation...