Word: sell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were still some details to complete before MAP supplies started flowing abroad. Congress had yet to appropriate the money which it had authorized. The North Atlantic defense council had to approve its integrated defense plan and each nation had to sign agreements promising not to sell or transfer MAP arms without U.S. permission. MAP did not even have a director-ex-Ambassador James Bruce had not yet been officially nominated by the President. But MAP planners hoped to ship the first materiel by year's end or, with luck, by Thanksgiving...
...government with an able but unexciting defense of his devaluation of the pound. When his turn to speak came, Winston Churchill peered owlishly over his spectacles and said that the Labor government's policy and makeshift expedients had brought the nation close to bankruptcy. A Laborite heckled: "Sell your horse!" Churchill shot back: "I could sell him* for a great deal more than I paid for him, but I am trying to rise above the profit motive...
...year-old curiosity, spruce and sprightly Louis Maurer, the last living Currier & Ives illustrator, whose traditional sporting prints and genre scenes had sold like hotcakes in the mid-19th Century. The other was slender, sad-eyed Alfred, his 62-year-old bachelor son, who painted hard-to-sell pictures of elongated, wistful shop girls and abstractions of heads and still lifes that were anything but traditional. Papa Maurer's show was a huge success to which son Alfy's was little more than a half-noticed footnote...
...Army football team in its first appearance here since 1942 promises to bring the largest crowd of the season to Soldiers Field next Saturday. In fact, HAA ticket manager Frank O. Lunden is expecting a sell...
Alumni have accounted for end zone seats in the concrete stands, while more than enough mail orders have been received to sell out the steel grandstand. Varsity Club men account for remaining Harvard side pasteboards...