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Word: sell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Government abandons in principle though retaining temporarily the irksome quota system under which U. S. cinemakers have to buy one French film for every seven U. S. productions they sell in France, thus obliging them virtually to subsidize the French Cinema Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pie-in-the-Face | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...with Orville Wright, Glenn Hammond Curtiss and other flyers, also with Henry Ford, and suggested ways of industrializing aviation. But until last week he did not enter the field himself. His present essay was to become the largest individual stockholder in the General Aero Corp. and to sell it the Atlantic City Motor Speedway, which he controlled, for a passenger airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...shares outstanding are listed on the New York Curb, sell around $540 compared to the 1929 high of 631, low of 530. While this is comparatively high (20 times earnings) for a closely held company with a thin market, Singer shareholders have learned not to sell, for melons have always been generous. This year cash extras of $12.50 have been given in addition to the regular annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Red S | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Singer Manufacturing Co. makes more than 1,500,000 sewing machines of 3,000 different types each year in its nine factories.? Its 10,000 stores and 60,000 salesmen cover the world to sell the machines turned out by its 28,000 factory hands. Its symbolic red S is familiar in Germany, South Africa, China. While its officers labor in Manhattan's once tallest Singer Building, its woodsmen chop down millions of board feet of lumber in its Canadian and southern U. S. forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Red S | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...company called Fashion Park Associates. Rochester's Rosenberg is President. Weber & Heilbroners Lewis M. Weiller is chairman. The five groups of clothes which Fashion Park Associates will put out are Tailored at Fashion Park, Stein-Bloch, Charter House, High Gate, Tailor Guild. Thirty-two Holly controlled stores will sell them. The net incomes of the three now merged Companies last year totalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Men of Fashion | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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