Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quiet Sale. But without directly notifying Jackson, Sears's lawyer, Paul Primock, quietly got a court order for execution on the judgment. To satisfy the debt, the sheriff was directed by Primock to seize title to Jackson's property and sell it. The sale was just as quiet, and Paul Primock, ostensibly acting for Sears, was allowed to buy all of Jackson's buildings and acreage for $647.71. It was all done so discreetly that Jackson knew nothing about it until eleven months later, when he tried to borrow money and the loan company discovered that...
...could agree on the programs to be cut. Some citizens felt that the President's experts were practicing arithmetical abracadabra to justify the surcharge. "Now you see it, now you don't," siehed Wisconsin's John Byrnes after Schultze projected a $2 billion saving on the sale of "participation certificates," which, committee members thought, amounted to an elaborate form of federal borrowing...
...Blasts and Precision Shooting, have published mostly technical articles on the proper care and handling of firearms and the most proficient ways to bring down everything from varmints to Viet Cong. But lately they have been devoting more space and fervor to a campaign against legal control of gun sales. No. 1 target is Senator Thomas Dodd's bill, which would limit the interstate sale of firearms through the mail. Guns & Ammo called the bill's supporters "criminal-coddling do-gooders, borderline psychotics as well as Communists and leftists who want to lead us into the one world...
...Congress. Of late, however, many political leaders have undergone a change of heart. With the Indian-Pakistani war in 1965 and this year's Arab-Israeli hostilities-both conflicts in which American weapons were used by each side against the other-Senate critics have charged that U.S. arms sales, far from serving freedom and peace, may actually do the opposite. Last week, after bitter Senate debate, Administration forces defeated, by 49 votes to 40, an amendment that would have barred the sale of arms to any underdeveloped country...
...touch on a yacht cruising the Mediterranean, but from Boston came word that he had agreed to turn over to the bank a $1,000,000 fee due him over a ten-year period for "special services" to Moviemaker Jack L. Warner. One such service: arranging the sale last year of Warner's stock in Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. to Seven Arts Productions Ltd., which Semenenko made possible with a $19.5 million loan to Seven Arts from a syndicate of First National and four other lenders...