Hours before the deadline, Trindle sold a two-thirds controlling interest to Denver trucking magnate Bill Ringsby for $ 350, 000.

Ringsby then renamed the team the Rockets, after his company's long-haul trucks.

" The Day The Earth Caught Fire " has since been covered twice, once in 1999 by Swedish hardrockers Lion's Share, and again in 2000 by Jørn Lande with Ronni Le Tekrø on guitar and Sid Ringsby on bass.

Months after the album release, Morty Black decided to leave the band due to personal and professional differences, and Sid Ringsby took his place for the following concerts and the album All the Way to the Sun, which was released in the fall of 2005.

Colangelo sold his interest in the General Partnership of the Diamondbacks to a group of investors who were all involved as partners in the founding of the team in 1995.

Although the team has been sold to Los Angeles investor Mark Attanasio, questions remain regarding Selig's past involvement.

Ecclestone sold the team in 1988.

Jack Brabham intended to retire at the end of the 1969 season and sold his share in the team to Tauranac.

He sold the company for £ 100, 000 at the end of 1971 to British businessman Bernie Ecclestone, Jochen Rindt's former manager and erstwhile owner of the Connaught team.

During the summer before the 1953 season, the Browns ' original owners sold the team for a then-unheard-of $ 600, 000.

With Lajoie engaged in a feud with manager Joe Birmingham, the team sold Lajoie back to the A's.

By, Somers was at the end of his tether, and sold the team to a syndicate headed by Chicago railroad contractor James C. " Jack " Dunn.

In 1927 Dunn's widow, Mrs. George Pross ( Dunn had died in 1922 ), sold the team to a syndicate headed by Alva Bradley.

In 1963, Daley's syndicate sold the team to a group headed by general manager Gabe Paul.

After rejecting an offer from George Steinbrenner and former Indian Al Rosen, Stouffer sold the team in 1972 to a group led by Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Barons owner Nick Mileti.

Only five years later, Mileti's group sold the team for $ 11 million to a syndicate headed by trucking magnate Steve O ' Neill and including former general manager and owner Gabe Paul.

The Wrigley family sold the team to the Chicago Tribune in 1981, ending a 65-year family relationship with the Cubs.

An ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge threatened the financial stability of the club, star players were sold and the team were relegated.

In 1981, after Osterlund sold his team to J. D.

In the 1985 close season, Lineker was sold to defending league champions Everton for £ 800, 000, and scored 40 goals in 57 games for his new team.

Shortly thereafter, McMullen ( who also owned the NHL's New Jersey Devils ) sold the team to Texas businessman Drayton McLane in 1993, who committed to keeping the team in Houston.

On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Crane had agreed to move the franchise to the American League, and the team was officially sold to Crane.

As a result, Mattel Electronics set up a competing internal engineering team whose stated mission was to produce an inexpensive add-on called the BASIC Development System, or BDS, to be sold as an educational device to introduce kids to the concepts of computer programming.

However, 2009 also saw the team's attendance numbers plummet, leading to television blackouts and speculation that the team could eventually be moved or sold.

Immediately following the announcement of Del Rio being fired, Weaver also announced that the team would be sold to Illinois businessman Shahid Khan.

He returned to racing before the end of the year, but promised his wife that he would retire after the season finished and sold his share of the team to Tauranac.

" If no owner could be found the Kauffman restrictions were to end on January 1, 2002 and the team was to be sold to the highest bidder.

This was the minimum amount Kauffman had stipulated the team could be sold for.

In 1940 " New San Antonio Rose " sold a million records and became the signature song of The Texas Playboys.

Gilson sold his production laboratory to a Japanese firm in the 1980s, but production has ceased since ; so did Chatham's, after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

Then in 1277, Maria of Antioch sold her claim to the kingdom to Charles of Anjou, who sent Roger of San Severino to represent him.

His son Giannantonio ( March 25, 1569 – 1613 ) sold Pitigliano to Tuscany, in exchange for the marquisate of Monte San Savino.

Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, the first album to come out of San Francisco during this era, which sold well enough to bring the city's music scene to the attention of the record industry: from it they took two of the earliest psychedelic hit singles: " White Rabbit " ( 1967 ) and " Somebody to Love " ( 1967 ).

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

But C. Arnholt Smith changed his mind, and instead sold the Padres to McDonald's co-founder Ray Kroc, who was not interested in moving the team and kept the team in San Diego.

For the first three years of clad production, in lieu of proof sets, specimen sets were specially sold as " Special Mint Sets " minted at the San Francisco mint in 1965, 1966, and 1967 ( Deep Cameo versions of these spectacular coins are highly valued because of their rarity ).

On December 10, 2006, the non-residential portion of the building was sold by San Francisco based Shorenstein Properties LLC for $ 385 million and was purchased by a joint venture of Chicago-based Golub & Company and the Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds.

According to his story, he sold his cookies to Chinese restaurants where they were greeted with much enthusiasm in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.

In 1917, O. P Skaggs started his own chain of self-service stores and later sold the franchise in the western states to Christian Call ( In 1945 Call would later open the first Sav-on store in San Bernardino, California ).

Cessna was re-sold to Textron in January 1992, the San Diego missile production to General Motors-Hughes Aerospace in May 1992, the Fort Worth aircraft production to Lockheed in March 1993 ( a nearby electronics production facility was separately sold to Israeli-based Elbit Systems, marking their entry into the United States market ), and its Space Systems Division to Martin Marietta in 1994.

In 1880 Thomas Catron sold some of the grant to the Denver and Rio Grande Railway for the construction of their San Juan line and a service center at Chama.

By 1844, Mission San Rafael Arcángel had been abandoned ; what was left of the empty buildings was sold for $ 8, 000 in 1846.

His stereographs, the popular format of the time, were sold by various galleries and photographic entrepreneurs ( most notably the firm of Bradley & Rulofson ) on Montgomery Street, San Francisco's main commercial street during those years.

In 2010, the Beavers were sold to Jeff Moorad, principal owner of the San Diego Padres.

Sakic's jersey retirement ceremony took place on October 1, 2009, before the season opener at home against the San Jose Sharks in front of a sold out crowd where the Avalanche won 5-2.

RCA initially pressed only 15, 000 copies, but it sold more than 10, 000 in San Francisco alone, prompting the label to reprint it.

The North Stars were sold to a group of investors that were originally looking to place a team in San Jose, although one of the group's members, Norman Green, would eventually gain control of the team.

On May 5, 1990, the Gunds officially sold their share of the North Stars to Baldwin and were awarded a new team for the Bay Area, based in San Jose.

During the summer of 2008, a club takeover was agreed between Cazzola and an American-based consortium ; this was, however, cancelled in the end, following disagreements between the parties, and the club was successively sold to a local group led by new chairman Francesca Menarini, who thus became the second female chairman in the whole Serie A. Arrigoni was confirmed as head coach by the new group, and the start appeared to be particularly impressive, with a surprising 2 – 1 win at San Siro against Milan thanks to a winning goal scored by Francesco Valiani.

Spain was forced by the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800 to return its Louisiana Territory ( of which modern Jackson County then formed a part ) to France, which in turn sold it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.

After filming was completed, the San Pablo was sold to the DeLong Timber Company and renamed the Nola D, then later sold to Seiscom Delta Exploration Co., who used her as a floating base camp with significant modifications including removal of her engines and the addition of a helipad.