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Word: it-you (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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Ghostwriters Bureau will tackle almost any topic. "We write it-YOU sign it" is their slogan. Ghosts Baer & Woods ex-newspaper reporters, do only the simpler forms of ghost writing: goodwill speeches, letters-to-the-editor, sales letters, etc. Other work they farm out on a fee basis to 200 writers on their list. Forty of these are professors at Columbia, Fordham, New York University. The rest are working newspapermen and assorted specialists. Rates range from 1½? a word for routine editing to 8? a word for articles on technical subjects requiring considerable research. They handle about 20 jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Clarificators | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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