Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stockholm, the Swedish Association of Retail Grocers also decided to stop sale of all foodstuffs containing cyclamates...
Turner, a short, peppery former paratrooper, was called before the committee last week, but most of the interrogation involved his admitted sale of Army guns for personal profit. Turner acknowledged that, when he was provost marshal general and shortly after he retired, he had received 688 weapons confiscated by police and customs officials. At the time, he signed receipts saying the guns were for Army use, but in his testimony he insisted that the receipts were a mere "formality." Not so, said a spokesman for one of the donors, Chicago Police Superintendent James Conlisk: "The general is engaging in falsehood...
...Sohio for a price of about $1 billion. The ingenious deal, like BP's earlier purchase of the Sinclair stations, will not require the British company to lay out a shilling now; the price is to be financed largely out of BP's eventual revenues from the sale of Alaskan crude. The combination would create a company able to compete aggressively against oil giants like Jersey Standard, Mobil and Texaco. As London's Financial Times commented last week: "The tragedy is that [U.S.] antitrust legislation was devised to encourage competition in the U.S. Yet the manner...
...solid base of Harrington's support came from traditionally Democratic working class areas in Lynn, Sale, and elsewhere. What brought him over the top was a new infusion of Democratic votes from the middle class "new politics" constituency. Together these two voting blocs can achieve a democratic Left majority. It is crucial for us to remember that neither group can do it alone...
...Moscow-though analysts were quick to point out that these talks have been held annually, even in the worst periods of Sino-Soviet tension. There were other signs as well. Two hundred thousand copies of a stinging anti-Mao broadside were withdrawn a day after they went on sale in Moscow; a check of bookstores in the capital indicated that all other anti-China books had also been quietly removed. A Yugoslav press report, originating in Moscow, said that both Soviet and Chinese troops were withdrawing from forward positions along their common Far East border...