Word: selling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books and on the way to completion before Louis Johnson took office. His contributions have been: 1) a notably successful effort to "sell" it to big industrialists; and 2) a supplementary Educational Orders Program, approved by the last Congress, whereby the U. S. will supply expensive dies and tools to pivotal manufacturers to test their facilities and train them in military production. This week Mr. Johnson submitted to President Roosevelt a list of the first items to be manufactured under this program. No. 1 on the list: the infantry's semi-automatic rifle, given preference because during the World...
...take even their household goods and movable possessions. They were ordered to pay on such goods as jewelry, furs and furniture, an export tax of 100%. A further decree barred German dealers from bidding on goods auctioned by non-Aryans, and provided that if a Jew, having failed to sell goods at auction, offers them for sale a second time but fails to find a private buyer, they should automatically be forfeited to the State. Why the Nazis went to this length was not apparent, since it would have been more in accord with Aryan forthrightness simply to order Jews...
...reliquary, it long belonged to the House of Habsburg, was given by Joseph II to an Austrian family named Wurschinger. In 1927, Alfred Wurschinger, an importer, brought the relic to the U. S., was offered $65,000 for it when news of it got into the press. Unwilling to sell, Owner Wurschinger insured the fragment for $100,000, put it in a safe deposit vault. Last week, unable to shoulder the expense and worry any longer, Mr. Wurschinger announced he would give the holy relic to any church, religious order or museum which would undertake to expose it to reverent...
...Krakauer Bros. The Wurlitzer, which will sell for less than $1,000, has two keyboards, one for piano strings, the other for any one of twelve electrically produced tones-tuba, cello, violin, flute...
Stanford and Hopkins built huge houses on San Francisco's Nob Hill; Crocker spent $1,250,000 to rival them with a gaudy, towering architectural monstrosity. An undertaker who owned a small house in the same block refused to sell it; Crocker built a spite fence 40 feet high, completely enclosing his neighbor's home. Dennis Kearney led a mob to tea down the fence and hang Crocker from the flagpole atop his 76-foot tower, but the mob decided to burn Chinese laundries and beat up laundrymen instead...