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...THREE BAMBOOS-Robert Standish-Macmillan...
...that campaign, the CRIMSON drive coincided with a copyright suit by MacMillan against the largest Square cram parlor...
ALASKA UNDER ARMS-Jean Potter-Macmillan...
...thousand willing teachers were rounded up and buckled down to studying aeronautics during the summer. Professor Wood's teams wrote 18 books, from teachers' manuals to a 900-page work that covered flying from Icarus to Zero. Macmillan's made publishing history by turning them out (ordinarily a six-month job) in 38 days. The books were distributed to schools at record low prices. At the school discount, the 900-page Science of Pre-Flight Aeronautics cost...
...figured that fully half of U.S. high schools were already teaching aeronautics. For small, remote schools that lacked teachers and texts, the University of Wisconsin started a correspondence course. Teachers, many of whom knew less about aviation than their pupils, hastened to bone up to keep one jump ahead. Macmillan's quickly sold out its first printing of the books (40,000), rushed a second. In Manhattan scores of students, too eager to wait until their schools supplied the books, descended on bookstores to buy their...