Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith of Gloucester, Mass., who has been a TIME subscriber from the first issue, took exception to a remark in our July 4 cover story on Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Los Angeles. We said that Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester. Mr. Smith thought the statement irrelevant. He maintained that quality, not quantity, was the true measure, and that there were no fish worth eating in the Pacific anyway. Otherwise, he found the story first-rate...
...communication signed by 15 Greek professors, authors and others commended TIME'S May 23 cover story on General Van Fleet and the current situation in Greece. The letter read, in part: "Since the whole truth about the real meaning of the struggle the Greek nation is waging has never been properly understood . . . your article was an occasion of bringing home this truth and making it known to all those who wish to learn what is really taking place in Greece...
...celebrate its 25th birthday last week, the Saturday Review of Literature (circ. 92,000) rounded up a literary team of heavy hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue...
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...their Ford agency the world's largest (they branched out to eight other cities) and made themselves millionaires. Says Dobbs: "It's all profit sharing. The more your employees make, the more you make yourself." Each month, as soon as enough cash had been taken in to cover overhead, Dobbs told his salesmen to cut profits to $1 a car, if necessary to get sales, because the $1 was all profit...