Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young auctioneer named Thomas E. Kirby and partners founded the American Art Association in 1883, were soon holding sales that ran into the millions. Auctioneer Kirby sold such famous Victorian paintings as Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair, which Commodore Vanderbilt bought and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1922, with borrowed money, Kirby put up the Madison Avenue building. Next year he sold the American Art Association to rich, eccentric Cortlandt Field Bishop for $500,000 and retired, having auctioned $60,000,000 worth of art in 40 years. Founder Kirby died a year later...
...found the new Parke-Bernet Galleries around the corner, leaving Mitchell Kennerley as president with what remained of his old Anderson Galleries staff. Mr. Kennerley did a good job of selling the Bishop books. But last year Widow Bishop and Friend Nixon, summering together in Paris, up and sold the Galleries for a mere $175,000 to Milton B. Logan, onetime real-estate agent, and Insurance Broker John T. Geery...
Producer Mervyn Le Roy's 1939 version of this childhood classic follows with reasonable accuracy L. Frank Baum's original story (first published in 1900) that sold over a million copies, his stage adaptation that ran 18 months on Broadway with Fred Stone.* Dorothy (Judy Garland) gets blown away in a twister from her home in Kansas, finds herself in the Technicolor land of Oz. Homesick, she goes in search of the Wizard of Oz to ask him how to get back to Kansas. Along the way she meets a Straw Man (Ray Bolger), a Tin Woodman (Jack...
...tires a year, if and when full production comes back. Its complaint is that while it is set up to serve an expanding economy, the public is now buying at the rate of about 50,000,000 tires a year. In the first half of 1939, the industry sold 9,217,000 tires at little enough profit to the hard-bargaining auto companies, and 17,188,000 tires at a better markup to the public. Last week its big producers were able to report quite satisfactory profits...
Measure of the technological progress of U. S. rubber engineering is the difference between a 1926 (4.40 by 21) tire and a 1938 (6.00 by 16) tire: model 1926 sold for $24, ran an average of about 14,000 miles, costing the average U. S. car owner 1.69 mills a mile; model 1938 sold for $19, ran an average of almost 27,000 miles, cost the average U. S. car owner only .73 mills a mile. The auto industry has not stood still, but it has not any better record...