Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rosten discovered that among daily newspapers the New York Times is best read by the Washington corps, considered most reliable, most desirable to work for. Hearstpapers and the Chicago Tribune are rated least fair and reliable. Among the weekly magazines, TIME and the Nation tallied first and second in readership...
Fortnight ago at the annual convention of the Investment Bankers Association of America, Frank R. McNinch, former chairman of the Federal Power Commission, argued that the New Deal's power policy had proven fair and constructive because "the power industry showed a record of the greatest production and consumption in its history for the year ended July 31, 1937." To that the I. B. A. delegates, whose prime interest in power is selling power securities, retorted: The New Deal's attitude had held up some $3,200,000,000 of private utility spending for needed expansion-money which...
...Boston for six days nearly 60 authors followed each other on the platform of an improvised exhibition hall on the top floor of the Boston Herald-Traveler Building. Reason for this heavy concentration of literary talent was that the New York Times was sponsoring its second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th and 39th floors of the International Building in Rockefeller Center, could claim such celebrities as Fannie Hurst, Emil Ludwig and Pearl Buck. The Boston Fair had H. G. Wells as lead-off man, with Robert Frost...
...Because she is writing a book about Sarawak, has published her memoirs, the ranee could qualify as an author among such full-time professionals as Stuart Chase and Frederick Lewis Allen, such part-time writers as Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Astronomer Harlow Shapley, all of whom attended the Fair. Since no fine horizontal line was drawn to distinguish low from high brow, nor a vertical one to set the boundary between Right and Left, listeners at New York's Book Fair could hear New Masses Editor Joseph Freeman as well as Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, profane, pugnacious Novelist James...
...hazardous, speculative, parochial, regular trade publishers keep the centre of the publishing stage. Although 855 of them scramble for the $70,000,000 annual sales of regular trade publishing, almost half of each year's output of new titles comes from only 18 firms. As the Book Fair opened, these 18 could look back on the biggest publishing year since 1929. Last year produced 8,584 new titles -not as many as the biggest pre-Depression total, but an increase of 25% over the year before. October, traditionally the big month of the fall publishing season...