Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal made eminently good sense. With scores of brands-ranging from Kools and Viceroys in the U.S. through its Brown & Williamson subsidiary to Tom Toms in Malawi-on sale in over 150 countries, BAT is the world's biggest, most profitable (1965 earnings: $230 million) tobacco company. But BAT needs a sizable British business to help balance highly taxed foreign earnings (it sells no tobacco in England) and, not least, to ensure its growth against a leveling off of tobacco sales because of the health scare...
Organized crime could not, for example, possibly corner the market on cigarette sales to minors. Every 21 year old is a potential source of supply. No organization, legal or illegal, could keep a multitude of 21 year olds from buying cigarettes and passing them along to persons under 21. No black-market price differential great enough to make organized sale to minors profitable could survive the competition. And no organization, legal or illegal, could so intimidate every adult that he would not be a source of supply to the youngsters. Without any way to enforce the law, organized crime would...
...same is probably true with respect to contraceptives in those states where their sale is nominally illegal. If the law is not enforced there is no scarcity out of which to make profits. And if one is going to intimidate every drugstore that sells contraceptives, in the hope of monopolizing the business, he may as well monopolize toothpastes unless the law can be made to intimidate the druggists with respect to the one commodity that organized crime is trying to monopolize...
...magazine went on sale Monday morning, a day in advance of the scheduled date. Look distributors, anticipating large sales, sent quadruple and quintuple orders to Sheldon Cohen's and Nini's Nini said. Each of the Harvard Square newsstands sold well over a thousand copies...
Casebeer, is in and around Harvard Square every afternoon excepting Sundays--and makes from $50 to $75 a week, depending mainly on the weather. He estimated a sale of about 200 pretzels on weekdays, running up to 400 on Saturdays...