Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first clear evidence we got on this point was gathered about nine years ago, when an industrial engineering firm surveyed 4,250 homes to discover how well-informed Americans were-found that men who read TIME were 46.3% better informed than men in the same neighborhoods who depended on other sources of news, that women who read TIME were 50.6% better informed than the women next door who didn't read it (and 13.6% better informed than TIMEless men, for that matter...
Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., oldest U.S. reprint firm (1898), has quietly piled up profits for years with 50? to $1.98 reprint editions. In 1938 Doubleday, Doran & Co.'s various reprint subsidiaries (Star Dollar, Blue Ribbon, Triangle, etc.), not content with slow distribution through the nation's 1,000-odd wholesale booksellers, branched out through Woolworth and other chain stores, aiming at some 7,500 distributors. Pocket Books Inc. (25?) with 70,000 outlets through news dealers, last week sold its 100,000,000th Pocket Book, while paying out its first $1,000,000 in royalties. Simon & Schuster Inc. made...
Last week Random House's bouncy President Bennett Cerf, editor of the Modern Library, suddenly announced that Grosset & Dunlap had been acquired by a three-firm combination: Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club (575,000 membership) and staid old Harper & Bros. The reprint house, purred Mr. Cerf, with no bow to Mr. Field, would remain in experienced book-publishing hands, would therefore retain its "high standards and traditions." Smart Publisher Cerf looked frankly pleased at having beaten Mr. Field to a buy, chatted happily about "enormous postwar markets," predicted that books would soon be "a flounder business rather...
There was clear evidence of deteriorating relations between the other American republics and the State Department. The firm hand and general know-how on Latin America seemed to have disappeared with the resignation of Diplomats Sumner Welles and Lawrence Duggan. Recently seven Latin American ambassadors met with Hull to discuss the participation of their nations in the development of a world security organization. At the close of the meeting the proud ambassadors told reporters that they had been lectured, had been allowed to say nothing, and treated like schoolchildren. Further, the Latin American leaders now want to call a meeting...
With the war almost won, Britain acted swiftly and powerfully in domestic and foreign affairs last week. A momentous social security plan (see below) laid a firm floor under British internal policy. Three days later the Conservative Government turned to foreign affairs. In two important speeches, on successive days, Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden laid the basis for future British policy in Europe. With Parliament as a world rostrum, Anthony Eden announced in effect that Britain had returned to her traditional policy of balance of power in a Europe from which Germany would be eliminated...