Word: selling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More immediate cause of American Piano's difficulty however, is installment buying, which while it has helped to sell pianos has not added any appreciable amount to their working capital...
...Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash...
External Monopoly: A merger of Radio's wireless, International Telephone & Telegraph's wireless and cable. Western Union's cable. (Radio would sell its wireless to I. T. & T. now if the U. S. radio law did not forbid.) Advantages...
...Louis one Sam Lehrer was held up by a Negro thug who, finding no money, clipped off a seven-inch length from Lehrer's beard, departed saying: "I shall sell this...
...Last week Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder and president of the National Glider Association and president of the Detroit Aircraft Corp., announced that his aviation corporation had bought Gliders, Inc., largest U. S. manufacturers of gliders. He proposed to sell gliders at cost...