The owner of the painting got it for $750,000, sold it for $500,000 in a market crash, and bought it back for $590,000.

The plantation was sold in January, 1845, and Palfrey thought the new owner ought to pay his people two months' wages.

Additionally, a previous owner removed and sold for scrap the 3 cast iron discharge pipes that previously allowed a controlled release of water.

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.

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.

After the victory Boston's owner sold its star pitcher, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees to help funding of a Broadway play, and thus starting a tale of futility which would last 86 years, known as Curse of the Bambino.

Mail from dead combatants was frequently looted and was used by the new owner or sold for a lucrative price.

* 1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.

Entering the new year, Henry sold the Marlins to Montreal Expos owner Jeffrey Loria, clearing the way for Henry to buy the Boston Red Sox.

Himmler placed particular importance on the death's-head rings ; they were never to be sold, and were to be returned to him upon the death of the owner.

First, owner Ewing Kauffman sold 49 % of his interest to Memphis developer Avron Fogelman.

" 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.

In 1997, owner Carl Pohlad almost sold the Twins to North Carolina businessman Don Beaver, who would have moved the team to the Piedmont Triad area.

In 2007 Monarch sold it to its current owner, Cornucopia Beverages Inc. of Bedford, New Hampshire,

Orthwein intended to move the team to his native St. Louis, Missouri, but sold the team two years later to current owner Robert Kraft in 1994.

On September 19, Saints owner Tom Benson announced that the team had sold out the Louisiana Superdome for the entire season with season tickets alone ( 70, 001 seats ), a first in franchise history.

** USA Networks ( also including what is now called Syfy ) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50 % owner ( with Universal Studios ) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal ( now part of NBCUniversal )

The Modicon brand was sold in 1977 to Gould Electronics, and later acquired by German Company AEG and then by French Schneider Electric, the current owner.

The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but on 3 October 2002, the main operating arm-the owner and operator of the national railway network, Railtrack plc-was sold by its parent company Railtrack Group plc to " not for dividend " company Network Rail ( a company limited by guarantee ) and was later renamed Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd.

Chattel slavery, so named because people are treated as the personal property, chattels, of an owner and are bought and sold as commodities, is the original form of slavery.

Truth learned that her son Peter, then five years old, had been sold illegally by Dumont to an owner in Alabama.

Air America was sold to a new owner in March 2007, hired well-known programmer David Bernstein, and began its " re-birth.

In April 1989, Rangers owner and oil tycoon Eddie Chiles, sold the team to an investment group headed by George W. Bush, son of the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush.

For example, his method of getting up in the morning incorporates a bed that tips over to wake up its owner, an invention that was exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851 by Theophilus Carter, and is similar to a device sold in Japan that is used to ensure the sleeper awakens on time by inflating a pillow under their normal pillow and rolling the person, thus waking them up.

She married British bartender turned Los Angeles bar owner Jeremy Thomas on March 20, 1994, and filed for divorce less than two months later.

Lyly installed Henry Evans, a Welsh scrivener and theatrical affectionado, as the manager of the new company of Oxford's Boys, composed of the Children of the Chapel and the Children of Paul's, and turned his talents to play writing until the end of June, 1584, when the original playhouse lease was voided by its owner.

In 1963, Merian C. Cooper attempted to sue John Beck claiming that he outright owned the King Kong character, but the lawsuit never went through as it turned out he was not Kong's sole legal owner as he had previously believed.

Between 1948 – 1950, the headquarters of the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency ( UNRWA ) was located there and two years later, its owner turned it into a luxury hotel called " The New Orient House ".

Chargers owner Eugene Klein tried to get the NFL and Bengals to postpone the game but he was turned down.

His father, Vasily Dorofeyevich Lomonosov, was a prosperous peasant fisherman turned ship owner, who amassed a small fortune transporting goods from Arkhangelsk to Pustozyorsk, Solovki, Kola, and Lapland.

" However, the owner of the feet turned out to be Njörðr.

Although Detroit Pistons owner William Davidson was thought to be the frontrunner, the buyer turned out to be insurance tycoon and motivational speaker Art Williams.

While the phone is turned on, the geographical location of a mobile phone can be determined easily ( whether it is being used or not ), using a technique known multilateration to calculate the differences in time for a signal to travel from the cell phone to each of several cell towers near the owner of the phone.

As of 2007 the property next to the grocery store was being cleared and turned into a park, called Nylander Park after the owner of the local grocery store.

Scottish immigrant Alexander Winton, owner of the Winton Bicycle Company, turned from bicycle production to an experimental single-cylinder automobile before starting his car company.

The defendant intending to steal the wheelbarrow turned it over but was apprehended by the owner before he could push the wheelbarrow away.

His father, René de Chateaubriand ( 1718 – 86 ), was a former sea captain turned ship owner and slave trader.

She turned to two friends to help sort out the financial wreckage of the marriage: club owner John " Preacher " Wells, a childhood acquaintance, and Clyde " Pumpkin " Golden, Jr. Wells and Golden found that Atkins ' gambling and profligate spending had put Vaughan around $ 150, 000 in debt.

In this position, Ephron made a name for herself by taking on subjects as wide-ranging as Dorothy Schiff, her former boss and owner of the Post ; Betty Friedan, whom she chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem ; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out a generation of " docile " women.

Their Carton House seat was sold ( though one of Ireland's most historic buildings with perfectly preserved 18th century grounds, it was controversially turned into a hotel and golf course in the late 1990s by the current owner in an act condemned by environmentalists ), as later on was their other residence in Waterford.

As it turned out, Arizona Wranglers owner Jim Joseph had lost almost as much money as Diethrich, and put his team on the market as well.

The characters often drank at the local members-only Winchester Club, where owner and barman Dave ( Glynn Edwards ) acted, often unwillingly, as a message machine for Arthur, and turned a blind eye to his shady deals.

Carella, the company's owner, disappeared after a final appeal was turned down.

Dolphin owner Joe Robbie brought in Don Shula from the Baltimore Colts in 1970, and immediately the Dolphins ' personality and fortunes turned.

When Howe turned over the completed elevator to the owner, the Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association, he was asked how badly he had done on the contract, and stated, " I lost my shirt.

She turned to her husband " Dan ", owner of the Fremont Canning Company along with his father Frank Daniel Gerber, for help.

As owner of Raw, Flair set up a lumberjack match with Austin against the newest member of the nWo, which turned out to be Booker T. Booker had just finished a silly skit with Goldust minutes earlier, where he had been wearing a lumberjack costume and fake beard, all but destroying his " tough " momentum going into the match.

Former driver turned car owner Harry Hartz felt otherwise about the young driver and thought that he did an excellent job of driving under difficult circumstances.