Word: sold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before boarding the transport in Naples harbor last week, Jan Olechny sold a few articles of clothing, bought some lemons as a gift for his family. Aboard ship an American officer told him Josepha and Riszard were eating lunch below desk. "I am sorry," he said, "you 11 have to wait." Obediently Jan sat down and waited...
Last week the crown princess and her prince consort looked over their new domain in Washington. Bazy sat down with Editor-in-Chief Frank Waldrop, 43, one of the seven "faithful employees" who sold out to the Colonel after Cissy willed them the paper. She praised him for the way he was running the paper, and persuaded all seven to stay on for the present as hired hands. Cautiously refraining from throwing her 118 Ibs. around right away, Publisher Miller diplomatically announced that she planned to submit some of her columns to Editor Waldrop to "see if they...
...wall hung his last picture, sold at a Papeete auction after his death in 1903 for 7 francs. Amid the warm splendors of his South Sea island retreat, truant Frenchman Gauguin had taken a nostalgic backward look, painted from memory a wintry' Breton village scattered along a low, snow-covered horizon...
...smiling with a new pair of Joyce playshoes. In similar shops in Manhattan and Melbourne, Los Angeles and Lima, Sydney and Santiago, other women were doing the same thing last week. In a single day, in eight countries around the world, some 16,000 pairs of Joyce shoes are sold...
...business. Last week, fast-moving Bill Joyce flew into London from Paris, announced that he was completing a deal to introduce Joyce shoes in France this fall. Like other foreign licensees, the French company will make the shoes according to Joyce specifications, pay a percentage on every pair sold...