Word: sell
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...have lived quietly in a Paris suburb, collaborated on the house work, relaxed with morning constitutionals. Arriving in Manhattan last week, they put up in a modest hotel. Townsend, who once snidely ticked off the U.S. as a materialistic nation of salesmen, had possibly come to the U.S. to sell something but craftily kept the exact nature of his fortnight's ''business trip" a stiff-upper-lipped mystery...
Kennedy proposed a Federal agency to which local development and lending institutions could sell the mortgages on industrial buildings, thus gaining funds for new buildings...
...past several Cambridge City Councilors have objected to sale of the site to the University, which is exempt from property taxes, because they said it would take taxable land off the city rolls. However, McLernon stated that the MTA has every right to sell and that "Cambridge has no call on the land...
...ideas about what he wanted to liberate. A Dutch-born U.S. citizen who likes to keep the sources of his wealth a secret, Sarlie struck up an acquaintance with Pablo Picasso, became one of the few men to whom Picasso was willing to sell his paintings directly. Over the next few years, before the modern art market went wild...
...SELLING nearly 10% of all U.S. bras, Maidenform last year took in $34 million, expects a 5% increase in sales this year. Most of it came from the world's best brassiere customer, the U.S. woman. Maidenform's average customer is 24-25 years old, wears size 34B, and frequently (one customer in eight) wants padding in her bra. She is also hard to please. "A woman," says Mrs. Rosenthal, "is a very funny creature. You have to sell her the right size and right type, but what she wants to hear about is fashion. Not only...