Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal gave Grosset and Curtis, already teamed up in the distribution of Bantam Books (25?), a new punch to throw at their big competitors, Marshall Field's Simon & Schuster (which puts out the 25? Golden Books for children) and his Pocket Books...
...running Wonder Books himself. O'Connor has always been a man with a sharp eye for selling. As vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp., he helped sell a million copies of the Book of Knowledge. At Grosset, it was he who started Bantam Books. O'Connor thinks that the potential market for Wonder Books (which have hard, washable-plastic covers) is 100 million copies. To cash in on it, he expects to increase the list of 16 titles (including Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit and The Three Little Kittens) by adding new books every month...
...verge of complete breakdown. Electricity was sometimes on, sometimes off; tap water was black and brackish; the city's tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward its blaze without even slowing down, enraged police and soldiers raced ridiculously after it on foot, brandishing rifles...
...once, Bob Young had nothing to say. (He had already said that he would appeal to court and to Congress if ICC turned him down.) But no one thought that Bantam Bob, who crows louder than any other bird in the railroad yard, was going to give up his fight...
...Gallup Poll), distributed by Partner Anderson's Publishers Syndicate, has been expanded into a network covering eleven foreign nations.** Other Gallup researchers study the effect of advertisements in a dummy magazine called Impact, probe the tastes of Book-of-the-Month Club readers, help select titles for Bantam Books...