Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alabama have an inferiority complex. We think everybody in the damn world is against us. We are cursing the land. This must stop. We have got to get along." As for himself, he warned "those who want to get to me" that "I'm not for sale, and the University of Alabama, so long as I'm president, is not for sale." Added Rose: "I want to be able to sleep at night with a clear conscience." But if that becomes impossible, "then I guess I'll have to find another...
Having thus sidestepped the particular problems of conglomerates, Douglas proceeded to spell out his agreement with the FTC charge that the merger "may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in the production and sale of household liquid bleaches." P. & G., he noted, was the nation's leading sales promoter in 1957 -and it still is, spending $245 million on advertising and promotion annually. When it bought Clorox, it was latching onto the leading producer of bleach, which controlled 48.8% of the market...
...vantage points, it was not until Denmark-which controlled them for over two centuries-was threatened by the Germans in World War I that the Danes agreed to transfer the islands to U.S. custody. On March 31, 1917, the U.S. took title to its new possession for the fire-sale price of $25 million, paid in nearly 48 tons of gold bullion...
When it finally reached the public last week-some stores put it on sale ten days before the release date-it seemed the work had been prepublicized, predigested, precriticized and prejudged beyond the point that the book itself could make much difference...
...family-owned firm, which has used "We Never Sleep" as a motto and an unblinking eye as its trademark while running up a record for running down all sorts of criminals, is now a quarry itself-for investors. Pegged at $23 a share when it went on sale, $6,900,000 worth of Pinkerton stock soon sold...