Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year, two will buy used cars. For the guidance of these a voice of experience from Philadelphia, that of 40-year-old Dealer Martin H. Bury, last week expounded the why, where, when, what, how and how much of used car buying in a 44-page, 25? booklet published by his firm, Bury & Holman...
Last week a committee of 51 reporters, copyreaders, rewritemen in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth broke journalistic taboos by publishing a pink-covered campaign booklet called "Deadline," crammed with the pro-Benson opinions their papers did not want. First edition ran to 100,000 copies. Excerpts: "We've written about Gov. Elmer Benson for two years. We know he is going forward. . . . The Red menace was a red herring. And smelled even fishier...
...follow ticklers in literature and fine arts. In the trial question booklet figure such propositions as where is the Slough of Despond described? or during the reign of what monarch was the most beautiful translation of the Bible into English published...
Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly is not up for re-election until February. But last week his campaign got under way with a handsomely printed 42-page booklet entitled Out of the Red Into the Black, The Truth About Chicago's Municipal Government. Embellished with photographs of Chicago's wonders (including five of Ed Kelly), tables purporting to show that Chicago's per-capita government cost was $53.57 compared to New York's $91.78, Boston's $88.26, it concluded that Chicago "stands in the front rank for economic administration of governmental affairs...
...What did Snow White's stepmother coax her to eat in order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order for the 32-page contest booklet was 50,000,000, roughly one for every other person in the U. S. and Canada who could read...