Word: sold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members plan to set up the book center on a scale similar to the non-profit exchange at MIT. Under the MIT plan, a student deposits a book at the exchange to be sold by a set date. If not sold, he must either remove the book or sign an agreement giving the exchange power to dispose of it at its discretion...
...mayor, being both a wise and thrifty person, set about selling his trained moose. After considerable dealings with various prospective purchasers, he sold the animal to a small travelling circus where, it is reported, it was used to run sprint trials (on a straight course) against another member of the circus case, a large trained ostrich. It is further reported that the moose could beat the ostrich nine times...
...added spur was a four weeks' "Dress Yourself" contest. Salesmen got clothing prizes (ties, shirts, etc.) depending on what they sold, with the top prize a suit. At meetings once a week, salesmen could wear only what they had won. At the first meeting, some were barely decent. Last week. Joske's totted up results of the contest. In a month, $232,000 worth of Frigidaires had been sold-and 20 suits given out. Since the campaign started, Joske's has sold $750,000 worth, more than most big stores sell in a year...
...fourth-term fight, persuaded F.D.R. to drop Henry Wallace as running mate and pressured the convention into picking Truman. Rewarded with the postmaster-generalship (1945), Hannegan i resigned his political jobs a year later to head a syndicate which bought the St. Louis Cardinals. He sold his interest last January for a reported...
...Dible. This blossom boom has been planted and cultivated chiefly by a fast-growing company called Flowers of Hawaii. Founded by Hawaii's Territorial Senator William H. ("Doc") Hill with the help of a fast-moving Los Angeles florist named Graham W. Dible, F.O.H. has sold some 5,700,000 orchids since 1946. This year the company hopes to sell 6,000,000 vanda orchids (a small flower about 2½ inches long), and gross about...