Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English-Speaking Union luncheon was accompanied by a fashion show of English styles on sale at I. Magnin & Co., and indeed, Margaret's whole trip-together with her top-secret wardrobe-is meant, among other things, to boost Britain's $10 million-a-year fashion trade with the U.S. For the luncheon, Margaret wore a silver-and-white brocade dress with matching coat, a mink hat and a spray of diamonds. For U.S. women, who are continually perplexed by British royalty's choice of clothes, the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis elucidated...
What should a man do when he thinks the police are arresting him without cause? To Newark Bartender Kurt Koonce the answer was obvious: Resist. After all, the cops were claiming that he had sold liquor to a minor-and they had not seen the alleged sale. How could they make the rap stick...
...part of the Government's huge aluminum stockpile. Though the notice said nothing about prices, the New York Times, acting on information from the Administration, headlined a story linking the two events. It quoted "Administration sources" as saying that Lyndon Johnson was "sputtering mad," intimated that the surplus sale-which presumably would weaken aluminum prices-was a reprisal against the industry for its price hike...
...rises "have no justification under the wage-price guideposts and therefore are inflationary." Though he denied that the decision had anything to do with aluminum price rises, McNamara announced that the Government will sell 200,000 tons of surplus alumi- num at market prices in 1966, allowed that the sale is "bound to relieve some of the pressure on prices...
...boycotting Le Nickel: early this year the company closed a $20 million deal to sell 19 million Ibs. of finished nickel to Red China. Despite French denials, U.S. Commerce and State Department officers speculate that Charles de Gaulle's government may have urged Le Nickel to make the sale in order to reduce its subsidy...