Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rashid Shari in Bagdad, a barefoot urchin cries his wares: Al Mukhtar Min Reader's Digest. Sales are brisk. He will be sold out the second day. His success is another sensation of the sensationally successful U.S. Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000): a skyrocketing demand for its Arabic edition...
Only five months after its start, Al Mukhtar Min (Selections From) has reached its wartime circulation ceiling-125,000 copies. With adequate paper supplies, printing equipment and transport facilities, Reader's Digest men think it might have reached to 200,000 in a few more months. In Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia the natives swamp their dealers for this newest Digest foreign venture...
Back to Front. In Cairo, Al Mukhtar sells for three piasters (12½ cents). To help cover costs, the Digest reverses its U.S. policy, takes advertising. Among the advertisers: Glenn L. Martin and Vega Airplane, Higgins Industries, Parker Pen. At three piasters the Arabic edition is still a luxury item for most Mid-Easterners; at the Digest's, U.S. price, 25?, there would probably be little circulation...
...there was more than such rare sport to the fuss over Hugh Butler's astronomically wrong facts. His accusations enjoyed wide circulation through the Reader's Digest, which sent three writers about South America with him. Some Latin Americans already fear that the end of the New Deal may mean the end of Good Neighborliness. Hugh Butler's partisan rancor would probably travel faster in South America than the news that all major Republican Presidential possibilities unanimously endorsed Good Neighborliness...
...year-old Prime Minister and Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts addressed himself to two related world problems: 1) Britain's position in the postwar world; and 2) Britain's Empire. As a member of the British community, he bespoke a rising unease about the new Europe. A digest of his speech...