Word: selling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widower Costadot lived with Widow Becker for a year, but could never make up his mind to marry her. When he turned her out she was hard up for cash, so she arranged to sell to a M. Guichner a dressmaking business, in which she had dabbled, for 10,000 francs. She did not tell him it had failed for 400,000 francs. When he objected, she brewed tea. He survived...
...then, realizing that when the patents expired it would no longer have its monopoly, began buying up power, tremendous amounts of which are needed in making aluminum. A sample arrangement, according to Lawyer Rice, was that with Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power & Manufacturing Co. by which it agreed not to sell power to anyone making aluminum except Alcoa; cryolite, too, is needed and Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. had a monopoly there, so Alcoa made a contract with Pennsylvania Salt...
...used car is rarely sold at the price that is lettered in soap on the windshield. It is a fact to which A. D. Mitchell, who in the early part of the century had the Helena, Mont, agency for Mitchell cars, never became reconciled. He always refused to sell a Mitchell, new or secondhand, for less than its list price...
...Next door was the late Mr. Mitchell's display room. Leasing this property, Parker Morelli also acquired no less than 14 old Mitchells (no relation to Dealer Mitchell). Some had never been used; they originally cost from $3,400 to $4,800 and when Mr. Mitchell could not sell them at that price, he had hung on to them. Parker Morelli, promptly putting all 14 on sale, by last week had sold the lot-at prices ranging from $15 to $25. One 1905 yellow roadster (see cut) had two upholstered "mother-in-law" seats behind the driver. It goes...
...which serves 580 communities, more than 135,000 customers, throughout the State. Last year, Guntersville citizens, having decided they wanted TVA power, authorized Mayor E. H. Couch and City Attorney C. D. Scruggs to try to buy out Alabama Power's local distributing plant. The company would not sell. Messrs. Couch and Scruggs floated a $130,000 bond issue, broke ground for a municipal plant to distribute TVA power. The company, in turn, announced in a newspaper ad that it had "no plans for discontinuing its service...