Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North American Aviation announced record earnings of $1.47 a share, up $1.17 from 1938; a little later it got a $20,000,000 British order that virtually doubled its backlog. But North American shares marked time between...
...ENDING OF HEREDITARY AMERICAN FORTUNES-Gustavus Myers - Messner...
...husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood's yearly revenues. To his average wife Hollywood sells dreams of luxury and love more expertly unreal than her own imagination, experience and daring could ever make them. "What the adult American female chiefly asks of the movies is the opportunity to escape by reverie from an existence which she finds insufficiently interesting. . . . She sees the quickest release... in dreaming of an existence which is rich, romantic, glamorous. But dreaming, though a pleasant occupation, is not altogether easy. . . . The making...
...horse, Socialist-minded Chicago publisher printed a small edition of Gustavus Myers' History of the Great American Fortunes. Its author was a fact-worshipping reporter of Philadelphia and Manhattan who had spent eight years digging out his facts. No other publisher would touch it-they feared it was "of such a nature ... as to get us into a great deal of trouble." Declared a typical nose-holding review (New York Times): "It leaves such a bad taste in the mouth that readers may be cordially advised to read something else...
Most college libraries banned the book. But its word-of-mouth reputation grew; Congressmen took to quoting it; its facts were a gold mine for left-wing cribbers. By 1936 the Modern Library edition (sales: 25,000) could say honestly that the History of the Great American Fortunes was a semi-classic of research. Author Myers has never been sued for libel...