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Word: lactor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Revisions were handled by Editor-in-Chief Irene Watson, an 18-year-old graduate of Brooklyn's Bay Ridge High School, who received $13.60 a week for her services, and realized no more clearly than the authors that she was helping run a roto-lactor. Some 40 other high-school kids, delighted to be in the publishing game at similar wages, sent out Mr. Flumiani's oleaginous form letters. The "season paragraph" told the author that the time (any old time) was ripe to bursting for his book to appear. The "fighting paragraph" bucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Rotolactor | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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