Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little office. There he, with an assistant and a half-dozen stenographers, besides publishing Private Schools, personally tells parents where to find schools, teachers where to find work, trustees where to find headmasters. He also places school advertising in magazines as well as in the rear of his yearly handbook...
...Coming American Boom, a breezy contribution to U. S. economics which sold 27,000 copies at $1.50 each. Next was Inflation Ahead by Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton, which sold 71,000 copies, at $1. The third Simon & Schuster pamphlet was Your Income Tax, a slapdash $1 handbook offered agitated taxpayers about a month before the last Federal income tax deadline. That sold 79,000. Last week another $1 yellow pamphlet appeared called The Coming Boom in Real Estate by Roy Wenzlick...
...answer was recently given in the British magazine, The Aeroplane, by its expert, temperish editor and founder, Charles Grey Grey. As editor of the standard handbook, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, Mr. Grey is also the world's No. 1 air authority. As a trained engineer fascinated by the science of war, he is emphatically anti-French and pro-German. He opened his opinion of France's air establishment with a wild blast against France's case against Germany at the London Locarno Conference...
...GARDEN DICTIONARY-edited by Norman Taylor - Houghton Mifflin ($16.25). In the 900 pages of this handbook the winter-emerging gardener will find the answers to all his vernal questions. Beautifully illustrated, carefully indexed...
Hyder E. Rollins, professor of English, is editing the new volume, containing a facsimile of the original book, "The Arbor of Amorous Devices." First published in 1597, this invaluable handbook has dwindled down to two copies, both carefully guarded in private libraries in England...