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...anti-propaganda ban only general magazines and newspapers "for which preference by members of the Army has been established"; 3) the preferred list is comparatively small because comparatively few of the 300-odd U.S. general magazines are widely read (the 18 preferred account for over 80% of U.S. newsstand sales, exclusive of comic and women's magazines) and transportation facilities are crowded. Any soldier anywhere may still subscribe to, receive from home, or buy at a public newsstand, any magazine he wants...
...noon the news had reached Oklahoma City, 35 miles north. In front of the 33-story First National Bank building, Bill Brannan spread it as he hawked his papers to the leasehounds who make their fairweather "offices" around his newsstand. Atop the building, in the swank Beacon Club, the talk of better heeled oilmen was the same: "Carter brings in new pool . . . she's bubbling out of the hole right now." For the Cottingham mud had tested 50% good crude, 50% mud and drilling water-no salt. By week's end the new well flowed at the rate...
...diet: less literature for literature's sake, more topical, issue-grappling articles. This week Editor Weeks and Publisher Donald B. Snyder could report a strong Atlantic pulse: 1943 advertising up 38% from 1939, December 1943's circulation of 108,037 (not including newsstand sales, which bring it to Snyder's estimate of 125,000) up 78% from 1939's average. The Atlantic had hit its alltime high, had passed Harper's (December estimated circ. 117,000) and now topped its field...
...perhaps the readers we are most interested in are the German businessmen and Army and Navy officers who pass through Sweden each week, and who will now be able to buy a copy of our Scandinavian Edition on any good newsstand for only a krona-to read in TIME a lot of unpalatable war-truths that Herr Goebbels has been trying to keep from them...
...Iddon, head U.S. correspondent: "We just thought the people over here would be interested in seeing the kind of news the British people are reading." Actually few people will get a glimpse of the Daily Mail's U.S. edition, at least for a while. There will be no newsstand sale. Copies at first will be distributed free to only about "3,000 prominent Americans...