The ballyhoo has been spread on thick and the selling of tickets been increasing at a fast clip, passing the U.S.$750,000 mark, according to Mike Jacobs, promoter of the clash, Jacobs revealed that five weeks ago more than U.S$150,000 had been collected in cash' orders for tickets.
The guiding genius of the Twen-teeth Century interests opened his reservation books and exposed the names of his customers with the amount of tickets each has paid for. The orders represent a. wide cross section of business and professional life, as well as indicating a national turnout.
One of the big individual orders was that of the Oldsmobile Auto Corp, which bought U.S.$5,400 worth. The Steiner Brewery purchased U.S$1650 worth. Buick Motors took 300 tickets and Edward Flynn, Secretary of the State of New York, bought 125.
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