Word: sold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters in their town, went out, rang doorbells, and played a part in increasing the registrations for the November 1948 elections by 4,000. An English class in Fortuna. fascinated by the building of a new dam in their county, interviewed engineers, studied blueprints, took pictures, and wrote and sold a magazine article on their experience. In San Diego, a science teacher said...
...H.A.A. deprives a student of special privileges and class priority if a ticket sold him turns up in the hands of a broker or scalper, whether or not the student himself negotiated the actual transfer...
Last week, after 13 years of experimentation, young Henry was well on the way He had sold 15 million of his hybrid chickens this year and his Hy-Line Poultry Farms (a subdivision of his father's seed company) expects to sell more than 20 million more in the 1950 season. Only about 475,000 chicks came directly off the four Wallace farms last year; the others were raised by breeders on a royalty basis or hatched from eggs sold to poultrymen at fancy prices. Noting that 9% of Iowa's chickens were already hybrids, young Henry predicted...
Detroit's Charles Langs, who invented a stick-on, strapless bra named "Poses," but came a cropper when he tried to market it (TIME, Aug. 29), sold out to Textron Inc. The price: $70,000 in cash and the prospect of more in royalties. With the bright merchandising idea, Textron also got full title to the job of soothing irate Poses' customers who are griping over shoddy workmanship and non-delivery of orders...
With no help from Montana, Callahan sold 9,000 pairs of flats in two months, as his total shoe business soared 36% above the same period in 1948. Then the Times got to worrying about Montana. It ran Callahan's "What's the matter with Montana?" ad again, in its own pages and in Women's Wear Daily, and added a note: there was nothing the matter with Montana, because "Montanans buy 1,111 copies of the New York Times...