Word: sells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, Cissy's seven heirs were looking for a chance to convert their legacies into cash. Times-Herald Editor Frank C. Waldrop, together with two co-executors of Cissy's estate, agreed to sell the trust stock to McCormick for a reported $9,500,000-if McCormick would pay another $4,500,000 for the Times-Herald as well. On top of the $640,000 each of the seven faithful would get from the Times-Herald sale, Waldrop drove a still shrewder bargain. He got the colonel to agree to give each of them ten shares (worth...
...real job, said Luckman, "is not to sell the enterprise system, but to put some enterprise into the selling system . . . [Businessmen] must relearn the science of fighting for orders ... At the very least, we should inflict as much wear & tear on the soles of our shoes as we do on the seats of our pants." To help sales, Luckman thought that business should cut prices where possible, take inventory losses where necessary. Costs would have to be shaved, of course, and the way to do that, he said, was to boost output. There must be "a willingness to expand...
Last week, beefy, blue-eyed Tighe (rhymes with buy) Woods invited newsmen to his air-conditioned Washington office and shyly announced that he had a surprise for them: he had built a house to sell for $6,750, including a ½-acre lot and a septic tank. Explained Woods: "I thought it was about time somebody did something about housing the guy who makes $50 a week. The building industry told me it couldn't be done, so I decided to find out for myself...
Webster: It would be tragic for the manufacturers who sell the obsolete sets, but [it] would not be tragic for the public who kept their dollars in their stockings to wait for color television. The only way to get the industry going is to have the public buy sets...
...trees which shelter the city from desert-bound winds, Mayor James E. Cunningham this week helped unload the first lumber for a new housing project. It was one of this year's few U.S. developments of privately built homes intended primarily for Negroes (316 two-bedroom houses to sell for only $6,450 each...