Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nursery chair, designed by London Royal College of Art Graduate Peter Murdoch, is now on sale at Bloomingdale's, Neiman-Marcus and some 20 specialty shops. Made by the International Paper Co., the cylindrical-shaped chair consists of five layers of paper coated with a thin layer of plastic, is only one-sixteenth of an inch thick and weighs an incredibly light 3 Ibs. The chair will support up to 500 Ibs. Designer Murdoch claims that it is almost impossible to break. The throw-away price...
...Romance Conti at his table. Two of his favorite dishes are poulet mascotte and filet tie boeuf pe-rigourdinc." And so in Soule's will, filed for probate in Manhattan-and leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion and his newer Cote Basque, to his widow Olga and sister Madeleine-he bequeathed "a watch to my dear friend J. Edgar Hoover," the FBI's bonded epicurean...
...three months working up an advertising campaign and two months in rehearsal and two months on the road and-and then at last the great day came. After three years of brain-bruising, tongue-twisting, leg-laming, wallet-wrecking labor, Fanny opened on Broadway with an unprecedented advance sale of $1,000,000 And then ran into trouble. Most of the critics liked the show, but they said so in such dull reviews that the public stopped buying tickets...
...Merrick foresaw the worst: if he did not do something drastic, and do it fast, the advance sale would vanish and Fanny would fold. He did something so drastic that dear old Broadway hasn't been quite the same since. He promptly signed on a raft of new pressagents and launched a promotion campaign three times as vast and ten times as vulgar as anything the theater had ever seen...
...reason is large issues by federal agencies, such as last week's FNMA sale of participation certificates in a pool of FHA and VA loans, which it owns. That sale, the final installment of $1.6 billion of FNMA financial assests put up for private investment since last July, furthered President Johnson's goal of holding down the apparent level of federal spending. Reason: the income from the sale goes to the Treasury, which uses it, at least as a bookkeeping matter, to make the federal deficit appear smaller. The certificates bore an average interest of 5.44% a year...