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...been reduced all the way to 1,100,000. Ever since it upped its price from a nickel to a dime in April, following the Satevepost's lead, Liberty's sales have been sharply off-its subscriptions have not had time to be affected materially, but newsstand sales have dropped almost one-third and boy sales over 60%. Advertising revenue, always slim, dropped 50% in a year to a piddling $155,000 (in July...
...feel certain TIME will grow in popularity. It is interesting all the way through and unbiased as far as it is possible for red-blooded Americans to make it so." Mr. Roosevelt closed with a friendly suggestion that we ought to try to get the nation's newsstands to handle it (as late as 1929 TIME'S newsstand sale was only 35,000; this week it will probably...
...Banned from the mails for "obscenity" by Postmaster General Frank Walker last week were two newsstand oldtimers: Film Fun, which specializes in leggy, breasty pictures, and Argosy, a 60-year-old adventure-story pulp magazine...
...talks little ("Speechmaking is no good, only gets you in trouble; I allus left that to John"), but he has a lot to think about. Before the great fire in 1871, he had a newsstand at Madison and Dearborn. Soon he had enough money to open a saloon near the Business Man's Exchange, south of Van Buren street-it had "the longest bar in the world." For a nickel The Hink sold schooners as big as buckets to bums, roustabouts, prostitutes. They could always put the bite on him for two bits; he let the bums sleep...
With its April 11 issue, the Curtis Publishing Co.'s Saturday Evening Post will pass a conspicuous milestone: it will raise its newsstand price from 5? to 10?, its subscription price from $2 a year...