Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season scorching along, the hottest item in any radio salesroom this week is a natty, luggage-style, portable radio that runs on batteries, needs no wall plug or aerial outlet, can be toted squawking along in a car, a canoe, on a bicycle. With 200,000 of these already sold since their introduction last autumn by Philco, 28 manufacturers who now make them hope to sell some 500,000 more this season at prices ranging from...
...last season, Hollywood had no production finger in any important Broadway pie. But unlike last season, it paid some fancy prices for hits. Abe Lincoln in Illinois was sold to Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Co. Inc. on a cash and royalty basis that may come to over $300,000, set a record. The American Way was sold to Gordon for $250,000. Setting a precedent, The Philadelphia Story was sold to Katharine Hepburn (its star) before it ever opened on Broadway...
...week later, when it was all over, Big & Little Steel were yoked to a new price structure at $50.51 instead of $56.27 a ton and they had enough orders for five months of operations at 50% of capacity. Their week of war had sold not just 1,000,000 tons to feed Detroit from October through Christmas, but something like 2,000,000 tons-enough to tide auto production over until the 1939 model year was nearly over. Result: the 1939 model cars were about $25 cheaper than the 1938, and $10 of that...
...enough of it accumulates. Ponderous U. S. Steel Corp. first disregarded the buzzing and biting of the mosquitoes, denied it was doing anything at all, finally "reaffirmed" present prices for the third quarter, in fact cutting them $3 a ton by extending previous "quantity deductions" to all small lots sold. This left the giant of the industry $8 a ton above its lowest competitor, but it asserted its intention of meeting each cut till its small bedevilers reformed or bled to death. Price cuts that bring increased orders are good business according to the philosophy which Henry Ford made famous...
...finally sank under him, Frost took to schoolteaching again - the Frosts thought of moving into even deeper isolation, considered going to Vancouver. At this juncture Mrs. Frost made the only romantic remark her husband ever heard her make: "Let's go to England and live under thatch." Frost sold his farm and the family sailed for England in September 1912. There, in a thatched cottage in Beaconsfield, he began to associate with literary professionals (Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas). In England he published his first book of poems, A Boy's Will...