Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...require each day the names of 100 Berlin Jews who will leave Germany within the next fortnight. When the 100 have paid their taxes, their share in the $400,000,000 vom Rath fine, the capital flight tax, contributed to the fund for the support of aged Jews and sold their jewelry to the State at the State's own price, they will be given passports marked with a large "J" (for Jew), told to get their visas. For those who don't get out on time, "dire penalties" will be provided...
Taken up on an ill-considered boast. Lothrop Withington '42 is faced with the prospect of downing a live goldfish in the Union at 6:30 o'clock tonight. Three freshman friends of Withington not believing it possible have offered him $10 for the feat and tickets will be sold to pay for tomorrow's show...
...Following the lead of Commonwealth & Southern which this month sold TVA its Tennessee utilities for $80,000,000, National Power & Light last week sold to TVA and the City of Memphis for $17,360,000 the distributing system of Memphis Power & Light Co., leaving TVA with no major private competitors in Tennessee. TVA is dickering for parts of Commonwealth & Southern's Alabama and Mississippi properties that would give the Authority a clearly defined power empire in three States...
...some 8,000 listeners annually. No light-headed cafe socialites are they. Wagner's Nibelungen epic consists of four ponderous operas (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung) totaling 14 hours of music & drama, requires tremendous listening endurance. But for eight years every Metropolitan Ring cycle has been sung to a sold-out house. Last week the first of this year's cycles opened. For a continuous two hours and a quarter (Rheingold has no intermission) the intrepid listeners took it and liked it. Only one woman had to be carried...
...bought a house from Hugh Satterlee, a tax consultant and kin to J. P. Morgan. While he was at it, smart Publisher Simon persuaded Mr. Satterlee to write a book showing people how to fill out their income tax returns. The 1936 and 1937 versions of Your Income Tax sold 80,000 copies. There was no 1938 edition. Last week Simon & Schuster came out with a brand-new edition in a glaring yellow cover bearing the wily subtitle, How to Keep it Down...