Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capacity, continued to show comparatively little money in its till, WPA's sleuths went to work. Last week they announced a shortage of $600 in one theatre, $300 in another. The investigators suspected that much more money had been pilfered by ticket takers and sellers who connived to sell the same tickets more than once, thus avoid discrepancies in their records. Shocked, WPA decided henceforth to have periodical audits...
...this year's plans for some 500 feature pictures, to cost some $150,000,000, were introduced with less noise, no less ballyhoo. By last week salesmen were visiting the nation's 16,558 exhibitors, talking up next season's shows. Under the block-booking blind-selling system of distribution to which the sprawling cinema industry is geared, they were all out to sell, in prescribed assortments, films not yet produced...
...uncooked citron is highly perishable, Grower Hart will not wait for fall when processors begin buying for the holiday season. Instead, he will process most of the 1938 crop himself, and this, he expects, will boost his profits. Fresh citron sells for 5? to 8? a lb.; after processing it brings 20? to 25?; retailers charge 39? to 45?. Mr. Hart will sell direct to West Coast grocers, will distribute nationally through Calavo Growers of California, cooperative wholesalers with 35 outlets throughout the U. S. Meanwhile, he is interesting food research groups. At present they are trying to prove that...
...long ago as 1934. National Power, an Electric Bond & Share affiliate, agreed to sell its Knoxville subsidiary, Tennessee Public Service Co. But fixing the price was no simple matter. Mr. Mynatt's first offer was $5,250,000; National Power turned it down. But Mr. Mynatt meant business. With a $3,225,000 bond issue and a PWTA loan, he started building a municipal power plant. National Power accepted the next offer-$6,000,000; Mr. Mynatt promptly stopped work on his plant. This time National Power's preferred stockholders thought the price was too low. Mr. Mynatt...
Largest private holdings in TVA territory are those of $110,000,000 Tennessee Electric Power Co. But the next situation likely to develop is further down the river at Memphis. Month ago Paul Sawyer said that National Power would be happy to sell Memphis Power & Light at a fair price. Memphis replied that it would be happy to buy at a fair price...