The company grew out of efforts by two completely inexperienced men in their late twenties, neither having a formal education applicable to, or experience in, manufacturing or selling our type of articles.

Have you actually checked out ( not just mentally tested ) different selling approaches designed to counter the price competition problem??

The Cuttle Cart II was a success by homebrew standards, selling out both production runs and commanding high prices on eBay.

Iglehart, the Orioles ' largest shareholder at 32 % and owner of a sizable amount of CBS stock, straightened out his conflict of interest issues on May 25, 1965 by selling his 64, 000 shares in the ball-club to the National Brewing Company, an original team investor which finally had controlling interest at 65 %.

Ticket sales resumed the next day, with all three home games selling out within two and a half hours.

It was claimed that they had not supported the war and had played a role in selling out Germany to its enemies.

When it came out in 1975, Pinchcliffe Grand Prix was an enormous success in Norway, selling 1 million tickets in its first year of release.

After recovering at home, Capra then moved out and spent the next few years living in flophouses in San Francisco and hopping freight trains, wandering around the Western U. S. To support himself, he took odd jobs working on farms, as a movie extra, playing poker, or selling local oil well stocks.

To support the album, Brooks embarked on a 1994 UK tour, selling out venues such as Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and London's Wembley Arena.

Originally scheduled to be only one show, the performance expanded to nine due to incredibly high demand, with all nine shows ( equaling about 140, 000 tickets ) selling out in under two hours.

Also, the Indiana tournament is still the most attended in the nation, with final four games for the two larger divisions regularly selling out Bankers Life Fieldhouse ( formerly Conseco Fieldhouse ).

When it came out in 1975, The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix was an enormous success in Norway, selling 1 million tickets in its first year of release.

During his childhood, Brown earned money shining shoes, sweeping out stores, selling and trading in old stamps, washing cars and dishes and singing in talent contests.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind was a successful work of popular science, selling out the first print run before a second could replace it.

Brabham soon branched out into his own business selling motorbikes, which he bought and repaired for sale, using his parents ' back veranda as his workshop.

He pointed out that if the " labor embodied " in a product equalled the " labor commanded " ( i. e. the amount of labor that could be purchased by selling it ), then profit was impossible.

They're the ones who did the first real big arena concert shows, consistently selling out and playing stadiums without support.

AvtoVAZ however began to move production of the Classic models ( which were still selling strongly in Russia ) out of Togliatti at the end of 2010-fuelling further speculation that this is to free up production capacity for the 2116.

However, he is not above selling out his employers if it means a big payoff, a fact which Edison Carter takes advantage of on several occasions while working on stories.

Barred from film-making by prior anti-trust rulings, he acquired the struggling ABC television network in February 1953, leading it first to financial health, and eventually, in the mid-1970s, to first place in the national Nielsen ratings, before selling out to Capital Cities in 1985 ( Capital Cities would eventually sell out, in turn, to the Walt Disney organization in 1996 ).

The next year, Green Day put out Dookie, which became a huge hit, selling nine million albums in the United States in just over two years.

Such controversies have been part of the punk culture since 1977, when The Clash was widely accused of " selling out " for signing with CBS Records.

The legislation stated " Whosoever shall brew ale in the town with intention of selling it must hang out a sign, otherwise he shall forfeit his ale.

Common punk viewpoints include anti-authoritarianism, a DIY ethic, non-conformity, direct action and not selling out.

With the change to " nickelodeon " exhibition there was also a change, led by Pathé in 1907, from selling films outright to renting them through film exchanges.

In 1909, tests showed cellulose diacetate to be a viable replacement base, and Kodak began selling acetate-base films the following year in 22 mm widths for Edison's work on the Home Kinetoscope, which was commercially released in 1912.

A selling point to seeing these films on the big screen back then was that they were being shown in color, at a time when most people had only black and white TVs ( and indeed the two first-season episodes that were expanded to feature length, while filmed in color, were only broadcast in black and white ).

After several successful film exports to the United States during the 1950s through Henry G. Saperstein, Toho opened the La Brea Theatre in Los Angeles to show its own films without selling to a distributor.

In addition to making home movies, one could buy or rent films from the library, one of the key selling aspects of the format.

In fact, while Jack Warner was selling the studio to Seven Arts, he would have had the film dumped but for the fact that Israel, of whom Warner was a major supporter, had scored a triumphant victory in the Seven Days War, and he was in too defiant a mood to sell any of his studio's films.

The characters are shown spending most of their time selling marijuana in front of the convenience store in the Clerks films.

The sale was achieved by the duo selling their ownership of the once thought worthless I Love Lucy films back to CBS for over four million dollars.

They subsequently firebombed three franchises of Red Hot Video, a chain of video pornography stores which had attracted the attention of feminist activists and was accused of selling snuff films.

He traveled overseas to help entertain the troops, made several bond selling tours and starred in a string of popular, patriotic films like Air Force, Destination Tokyo and Pride of the Marines ( all box office successes ).

His collection consisted of 160 16 mm prints and more than 1, 000 video cassettes, at a time before the era of commercial videotapes, when there was no legal aftermarket for films ( copying or selling prints obtained from studios without owning the copyright was illegal ).

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They established a film studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey and made a number of films starring Lawrence and Owen Moore before selling out to the new Universal Pictures in 1913.

While his brother remained with the new owners, producing comedy films, Charles went into the selling of real estate.

Producer Leon Schlesinger had already produced one cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, based on music, and its success prompted him to try to sell a sister series to Warner Bros. His selling point was that the new cartoons would feature music from the soundtracks of Warner Bros. films and would thus serve as advertisements for Warner Bros. recordings.

The spy films in the 50's included Henry Hathaway's Diplomatic Courier ( 1952 ), with Tyrone Power as an undercover secret agent in search of documents with details of the Russian invasion of Yugoslavia and Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers ( 1952 ) with James Mason as undercover agent Ulysses Diello ( code-named Cicero ), working in the British embassy in Turkey during WWII, selling secrets to the Nazis.

The inventor did such a good job selling the art of movie-making that he talked Blackton and partner Smith into buying a print of the new film as well as nine other films, plus a Vitascope to show them to paying audiences ( Reader was brought back in to run the projector ).

Whatever its origin, the term quickly caught on as a way to describe a hit, and has subsequently been applied to productions other than plays and films, including novels and multi-million selling computer / console game titles.

Their combination album comprising music from the films, Arth and Saath Saath is the HMV's largest selling combination album of all time.

Ivan's Childhood was one of Tarkovsky's most commercially successful films, selling 16. 7 million tickets in the Soviet Union.

Jeff Stryker is primarily known as a performer in gay pornography films, although Jamie Loves Jeff was one of the biggest selling heterosexual adult movies of all time for its producer, Vivid Entertainment.

Before long images of the shapely brunette reach brother-and-sister entrepreneurs Paula and Irving Klaw, who run a respectable business selling movie stills and memorabilia but also deal with fetish photos, magazines, and 8-and 16-millimeter films for additional income.

It immediately became the fastest and largest selling single make-up item to date, as well as the standard make-up used in all Technicolor films.

By the late 1970s, thanks partly to the success of films such as Star Wars and Superman: The Movie, comics were selling well, and Pacific expanded its distribution system nationwide, " raising $ 200, 000 by closing its four San Diego retail locations and selling off inventory ," rising rapidly to the top of the new distribution system.