Word: sell
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...also runs a financial empire that even U Nu would find hard to dislodge. Among its activities: a bookshop, bank, import-export bureau, bus company, electrical-appliance outlets, a fuel-supply firm, a department store, a shipping line, the control of nearly all fisheries, as well as plans to sell everything from shoes to paint to coke...
...sure just when "Time, gentlemen" will be called. As if the pub situation were not confusing enough, a hotel guest, while able to drink at any time because he is legally "at home," cannot offer a friend a drink when the local pub is closed. Nor can a grocer sell a housewife liquor, though he is allowed to "deliver"-if only to a waiting pram...
ANITA O'KEEFFE YOUNG, widow of Railroadman Robert R. Young, wants to sell her Alleghany Corp. stock to Texas Millionaire Clint W. Murchison for estimated $11 million. Sale of stock, crucial to control of Alleghany, is being temporarily blocked by suit filed by a Young relative. When and if deal is closed, Murchison is expected to ask for at least two seats on Allegheny's nine-man board, put new zip into the company...
...last decade, sales of filter cigarettes have leaped from less than 1% to more than half of all U.S. cigarettes sold. Filters rescued the industry from a skid six years ago when the first cancer-cigarette studies were widely publicized, helped sell a record 456 billion cigarettes last year. They also touched off a heated controversy on their advertising claims of reduced tar and nicotine. Last week FTC Chairman Earl W. Kintner announced that all cigarette makers had agreed to end the tar derby by dropping claims to filter effectiveness, taking the health pitch out of their...
...poor Japan had no choice. Instead of the fifty-fifty profit split then prevalent, the Japanese agreed to take only 43% of the profits from Kuwait, 44% from Saudi Arabia. They also promised to build a refinery in Saudi Arabia or in the Neutral Zone, agreed to sell 10% of production to the two nations at a discount, make available another 10% for sale to friendly Arab nations...