Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ultra-new luxuries as snip-to-shore telephones in her roomy apartments, full-sized tennis and squash courts, private baths with 70% of cabin-class rooms. She holds the record for the fastest land-to-land crossing of the Atlantic. She is the largest and fastest ship ever to go round the world. She has more space per cabin passenger than any other ship. Empress of Britain still retains the title of the most economical steamship afloat for fuel consumption per shaft horsepower hour. She has conveyed across the Atlantic the most distinguished party since the days of Christopher Columbus...
TIME'S reporter on People (TIME, July 3, p. 28) should go back to his Latin class. The point of the Oxford University orator's pun, in presenting Justice Frankfurter for the D.C.L., was that instead of quoting the poet correctly-Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas-he said reorum, changing the poet's "things" into the more appropriate "legal arguments...
...company, was making demands and calling strikes at this critical time simply to clinch the superiority of C. I. 0. over A. F. of L. in the G. M. sector of the motor industry. G. M. insisted that before it would negotiate anew with its workers, they must go on record in an election to show which wing of U. A. W. the company deals with...
Tryout of Pocket Books-10,000 copies of each title-was confined to the New York area. At first week's end they were a sellout. (First to go were Wuthering Heights and Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope, with The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Felix Salten's Bambi bringing up the rear.) Macy's sold 4,100 copies in six days. Booksellers said they brought new faces into their stores. Newsstands did an arm-aching business, as did Grand Central Terminal "train butchers...
...most publishers were skeptical. Said one: "We are cooperating because of all the agitation for cheap books and the success of cheap books in Europe. We feel we ought to give it a chance-to show that it won't work here. If we thought it would really go, we would hesitate much longer about letting him have our plates." Said another: "The price is still too high for paperbound books-they have to sell at 10? or 15?, compete with magazines." A third publisher said the initial success in New York was no guide, was due to novelty...