Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath the Capitol's rotunda is a book-lined lair where, 21 years ago, California's Senator Hiram Warren Johnson, then a vigorous ex-Governor and ex-candidate on the Bull Moose ticket of 1912, put his name up on the door without a by-your-leave to anyone. That has been his office all these years, while other Senators shuttle to & from the palatial marble Senate Office Building. One day last week more than a score of Senators took their way to Senator Johnson's lair to join in drafting a manifesto that constituted the gravest...
Next, United announced that it would write down its $581,285,157 paper assets to $144,528,214. In this $436,756,943 write-off-one of two stupendous deflations of book values in the history of the inflating utility industry*-SEC concurred. Before the year was out United made still another obeisance to Bill Douglas and SEC: it registered as a holding company. In doing so President George Howard announced that United intended to reduce its holdings in its four main holding company investments (eventually to less than 10% of each) that it "has determined to continue...
...these are all reprints. What cheap-book advocates want to know is why original editions cannot be sold for less than $2.50 to $5. Again publishers have a ready answer: they cannot sell big enough editions (50,000 copies) to make money. Once they tried it. In 1930 four Manhattan publishers-Doubleday, Farrar & Rinehart, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann-published some first editions at $1 to $1.50. They sold more copies, but lost money, dropped the experiment. To break even on a $2.50 novel, publishers figure they must sell at least 2,500 copies. On this number, they figure average costs...
Novelist Boo weaves a leisurely ring around the triangle of Dagrun Styhr, her husband, Paul, and Steffen Thomasgard, the man whom Dagrun had first loved and whom she returns to see. So slow-paced is the book that even its climax, when Dagrun and Steffen are marooned overnight on a deserted island, seems unexciting. Sigrid Boo thinks her book would make a good movie, hopes that fellow Scandinavian Garbo will play the lead. It would take the Garbo face and voice to put umph in such a gentle...
...This shot is not among the 33 reproduced in his book...