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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But miss they did. In October 1936, they started Coronet, a pocket-sized monthly which now sells about 150,000 copies a month. In April 1938, Messrs. Smart, Gingrich and Weintraub tried again with Ken, and Ken folded last month (TIME, July 10). Meanwhile, Esquire was having its own troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scribner's to the Smoking Room | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

In the last two years the Scripps brothers have got rid of two of their newspapers, cutting their chain down to eight. Weakest of these has been the Portland (Ore.) News-Telegram, chief loser in a circulation war between Portland's other two papers, the morning Oregonian and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps Tease | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Weakest spot in the weakened Hearst empire has for many months been the Chicago Herald & Examiner. Further devitalized by a Newspaper Guild strike, which cost it an estimated $30,000 a week in advertising revenue, the Herex was kept going for two reasons: 1) it accounted for 1,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst's Eighth | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Seven years ago the U. S. phonograph and record industry was so sick its own backers almost gave it up for dead. Today, it is not only up and around again; it has fattened into one of the fastest growing businesses in the U. S., with an annual gross of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Phonograph Boom | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

But while the record manufacturers gloomed over their dwindling sales accounts, the engineers of Western Electric and the Bell Telephone Laboratories had been monkeying with electrical transcription and reproduction. By means of their new recording and amplifying gadgets the phonographic disc could, for the first time, catch a close approximation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Phonograph Boom | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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