Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...published. The book is bound in black cloth with scarlet paper sides, illustrated with twelve reproductions from very rare originals in private and semi-public collections, and enclosed in a slide-case. The edition is definitely limited to 500 copies. So great has been the local demand that less than 200 copies are now available...
...regular department devoted, when necessary, to a correction of unintentional errors. Although it is too much to hope that a short space of five years will see a complete change in the public taste it is distinctly encouraging to find that truth and accuracy are almost as much in demand now as in the Washingtonian past...
They read it here, they read it there, those Bolshies read it everywhere. "It" is Tarzan. Six books* of Tarzan adventures, in cheap paper editions costing 60?, have been printed to the number of 250,000. "Yet," said a Moscow publisher, "the supply is far inferior to the demand. We could easily sell a million." A Moscow journal said: "We publish books and pamphlets about Marxism and our great revolution. We encourage young authors to interpret its spirit and inspire the masses. We even issue cheap editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining...
...apparently competing radio industry. Yet, judging from the experience of the Victor Machine Co. at least, the radio seems to be a friend rather than a foe. Victor's Camden (N. J.) plants are working at capacity to turn out enough machines and records to satisfy the demand. The Premier Graphophone Company's new plants are fully employed, and its production schedule is the largest on record...
...desk office of the registrar, offices for secretaries and clerical workers, and a large room divided into twenty compartments for readers of the students' reports, as well as space for fifty stenographers and typists. On the second and third floors are large spaces to be developed as the requirements demand, into compartments for teaching marketing, industrial management, accounting, finance, statistics and other subjects...