Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy secretly sold Spanish Insurgent Generalissimo Franco's navy two 1937-built submarines and four old destroyers in 1938, the Falco, Aquila, Guglielmo Pepo, Alessandro Poerio...
Little boys are supposedly made of snaps & snails & puppy dog tails. Worse were the ingredients found by Federal inspectors in cheap candy made at the Brooklyn factory of Victor A. Bonomo and sold at goody counters to moppets of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut...
...Paley neither denied nor affirmed. Merely pointing out that record sales are currently booming, he preferred to relate a curious little chapter of corporate counterpoint: one of American Record Corp.'s subsidiaries is famed old Columbia Phonograph Co. which dipped CBS into the baptismal fount eleven years ago, sold the little starveling three months later...
...listing in Who's Who) was born in Washington, D. C., Philip Musica, an Italian immigrant boy, was playing in the streets of Manhattan's "Little Italy," where his father Antonio had a barber shop. Antonio made enough money to open a store where he sold cheese imported from Italy. Philip grew up to run the importing end of the business. He ran it so well that the Musicas prospered, moved to the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn and there became leaders of Italian society. Besides Antonio and his wife and Philip, there were then four little Musicas...
...crazy. Publisher Connett, a serene glitter in his eye, was not crazy at all. For men who paid $500 for a gun, $75 for a fishing rod, $250 for a dog, $1,500 for a horse, said he, Derrydale prices were chicken feed. He was right. Derrydale books sold just as well at $25, $50, $125. Last year Connett sold 44 copies of a book on salmon fishing for $250 each. Even Derrydale's tenth anniversary catalogue is published in a limited edition: 950 copies at $3.50 a copy. A student claims to have worked her way through Vassar...