Word: selling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief student solicitor explained last night that the "head man" wanted to step out of the racket in the middle of last week, and that the panic occurred because his inexperienced assistant was handling the affair. The operators have had to sell their cars and mortgage their homes to make up for the $36,000 loss...
Last August Cities Service began negotiating to sell its Michigan subsidiary to equally sprawling Commonwealth & Southern Corp., which serves 60% of Michigan (and some ten other States). Last week, providing SEC and the Michigan Public Utilities Commission approve, the deal was closed for $3,200,000 in cash...
...Sold 3,000,000 bushels of wheat to Mexico under the export subsidy plan, Mexico will pay for the wheat with proceeds of its export tax on the silver its mines sell to the U.S. The U.S. Government thus pays the Mexican piper both ways-taking one loss by selling the wheat at less than the market price, taking another by buying the silver at an artificially pegged price...
...annual salary of $30,000 (Forbes Morgan got $50,000), Director Sturges will take office next week, will commute from Washington to New Haven for the one course he intends to continue teaching. Not ambitious to become a Liquor Tsar, he presumably will attempt to sell the distillers on policing themselves. Said he: "I am undertaking the office...hoping that by cooperation with the public authorities we can eliminate all aspects of the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages which may be offensive to important groups of our citizenship...
...through his experiments and expansions, Mr. Crosley has been wistful about his first and least successful love, the automobile. For some time he has been reported toying with a little two-cylinder car, to sell at about $200. Last month stockholders received a letter proposing that the company change its name-leaving out the word Radio-and alter articles of incorporation "so that the company will be able, if conditions warrant, to enter the automobile industry when, as and if, such entry into the automobile industry appears desirable...