Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today will be a busy day for freshman tennis players as they face two prep school teams on the Soldiers Field courts...
...there hardly breathes a senior with soul so dead that he won't admit Graduation is worth the time and that the money can be managed somehow. It's simply that plans have to be made reasonably far in advance, and scores of seniors don't face the Graduation issue until too late. It isn't too late yet--the Class of 1949, and all others who will receive degrees in June, can still get the pesky details out of the way and appear in staggering numbers five weeks or so from...
...blanket finish, with little more than a length separating all four: Mrs. Royce G. Martin's Halt, J. A. Kinard Jr.'s Johns Joy, Greentree's Wine List and -fourth-Old Rockport. Hard-Loser Cliff Mooers had a grin on his face. Said he: "We can afford to lose this...
...Manufacturers and retailers have no more important approach to the problem of rebuilding volume than early price reductions. It would appear that many appliance retailers have found their sales off as much as 50% [in 1949]. However, [price reductions] are about the one thing the manufacturers are unwilling to face . . . Relatively little has been done to meet the public's demand for lower prices. The only question seems to be whether industry will move in quickly and do the needed thing or whether it will invite a couple of seasons of bad business and then finally have to take...
...Black Eyes. Gardner's position in the mystery field is towering in the face of the fact that the average detective story in the U.S. sells a mere 3,000 in the original trade edition and nets its author about $800. A story fortunate enough to be picked as a Crime Club semimonthly selection may sell about 10,000 copies, while Gardner's trade-edition average over the past five years has been 24,000. But position with whodunit fans is only half the story. Author Gardner is not only the most popular practitioner, he is also...