Word: sells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street. These and the house on them were the property of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The government wanted the site for the new home of the Supreme Court of the U. S. A federal board condemned it and Bishop Cannon was obliged to sell. His Virginia admirers in 1925 had given him this $12,500 abode believing he had pauperized himself in the cause of Prohibition. In Washington he lived at the Driscoll Hotel, on the opposite side of Capitol Hill, rented out his gift home. Though he said he would not take...
Thus having gained the confidence of Woolworth executives, Agents McNelis & Weir ambitiously toyed with another idea. Why not sell magazines in Woolworth's?not magazines already in existence, but magazines edited especially for Woolworth customers, sold only in Woolworth stores? There was an outlet of approximately three billion persons annually passing up and down Woolworth aisles; people who had come not just to look but to spend. Last year they spent $287,000,000. The proposition was propounded to the executives. This time there were no deaf ears, little hesitancy. Four magazines, McNelis-Weir executed, will be sold in Woolworth...
...idea that other articles than gasoline and oil should be vended from the ubiquitous filling station. An ordinary roadside station may do a gross business of $25,000 a year in gasoline and oil. A city station of the same size may sell three times as much. But whether 200 or 1,000 gallons of gasoline per day gush through a hose into 30 gas tanks, many motorists must wait beside the filling station. While they wait they might as well be sold something...
...poets' wives are pressed for money. Recently when Mrs. Alfred Noyes decided to lay her hands on an extra ?30.000 ($150,000) or so, she knew exactly how to touch the money. She would sell an old manuscript left her by her grandfather. For years it had been displayed on loan at the British museum...
...shipped in a weatherproof packing case which has a hinged door and will serve as its garage. It will go 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It has a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine. It is a two seater but three can squeeze into it. It will sell for $200. It was invented by James V. Martin of Martin Aeroplane Factory, Garden City, L. I. Mr. Martin is looking for a Wall Street firm to finance it and for a mail order house to distribute it. It is the new "baby car." arrival of which has been for some...