Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month Curtis negotiated the sale of 110,000 acres of mineral-rich Canadian land, as well as 141,000 acres of Pennsylvania forest, to Texas Gulf Sulphur. The transaction should bring in some $24 million, which could wipe out most of Curtis' $28 million bank debt -down from $36 million after the sale of Curtis' Lock Haven, Pa., paper mill earlier this year. "We are over the hill," says the vice chairman of Boston's First National Bank, Serge Semenenko, the financier who put together a $35 million loan for Curtis in 1963 and has been...
...Pope's visit"?then led a procession of eight to the ground, 38 stories below, by candlelight. Housewife Harriette Browne hated to do it, but she had to use the 48 candles from her husband's birthday cake to light the house. One Fifth Avenue jeweler credited the sale of a $6,500 brooch to candlelight. "It does give such an attractive glow to diamonds," he purred. At Irishman Jim Downey's, a celebrated steak house, the light came from Jewish yahrzeit candles, normally used to commemorate the dead. The New York Hilton used 30,000 candles during...
...never recorded commercially. What makes them illegal is that many are reproduced and peddled under the counter. For "recommended customers," one Manhattan record shop provides a catalogue of some 2,000 black-market recordings. They are packaged in plain black cartons and, though stamped "private recording not for sale," sell for $9.50 for a single copy, up to $25 for an album. For the Callas fan, for example, the catalogue lists her excellent 1958 performance of Medea with the Dallas Opera, taped by a college student who hid his microphone in the footlights, and a 1952 Covent Garden production...
...recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, whose label listed a cast of singers and an opera company she had never heard of. "You know who that is singing?," she cried at the proprietor. "That's me!", and she got a court order to ban its further sale...
...Hundreds of toxic agents are now available to millions as pesticides, cleansers, barbiturates and tranquilizers, and many cannot at present be detected in a cadaver. The mod ern world, in Thorwald's opinion, has become a poisoner's paradise in which do-it-yourself-death is on sale at the nearest supermarket-in the handy-dandy family size...