Word: newsstand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall not subscribe. It gives me a feeling of pleasure to wend my way to this newsstand or that and purchase it weekly. Might save a few cents by subscribing, but it's more fun to buy it hebdomadically...
...sell it." His confidence in himself was shared by the newsdealers, whom he made his friends by every means at his command. Once, when they were crying for newspapers to sell during a Chicago strike, he ignored death threats, put his Tribunes on armed trucks, saw that every newsstand was supplied. In newsdealers' tiny offices, storerooms, back-alley loafing places, the name Max Annenberg became a great name. They call him "Max," he calls them by their first names. Once when a newsdealer died and left his business to a son who knew little about circulation, Max Annenberg stepped...
...Tribune circulation success with the Patterson-McCormick New York Daily News (largest in the U. S.), Circulator Annenberg was put in charge of circulating Liberty when it was founded in 1924. Later he was given the general managership. That meant supervising the sale of white-space as well as newsstand sales. Manager Annenberg drove into the job. Than Liberty's advertising sales-methods nothing more high-powered has ever been seen in the business. But advertising men are different from newsdealers. They must be coaxed, cannot be driven. Somehow, Liberty's advertising did not keep pace with...
...Subscriber Harmon, The Alexander Co., Quarterback Earl ("Dutch") Clark and to all TIME Subscribers and Regular Newsstand Buyers, best wishes for a prosperous New Year...
TIME readers, whose interests extend beyond the railroad depot, often travel upon the ocean. Aboard ship they are deprived of that pleasure of opening a crisp copy of TIME on the day that they know their fellow subscribers and newsstand buyers are getting theirs. For their knowledge of world events they must depend upon a typewritten sheet printed each night by the radio operator, posted in a prominent place the following morning...