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Word: davidow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...formed Publishers Service Co. and began to job-lot sets of Dickens and Mark Twain to other publishers who passed them on to readers at cost. Smelling profits, 36-year-old Leonard Davidow chucked his job as publishers' wholesaler at Reading, Pa. last autumn and joined Stanley Livingston to form his Standard American Corp. and Consolidated Book Publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Battle of Books | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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