Word: percent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books begin to sell in Manhattan and Boston, then become popular in Chicago, often become best-sellers in cities of the West and South after their Manhattan popularity has dwindled. Ten percent of all books sold in the U. S. are sold in New York City and its leading favorite outsells the headliner of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and San Francisco combined. Thus a new novel like Howard Spring's My Son, My Son!, now leading the field in New York City, has just begun to sell in the West and South, although its total sale...
...Boston, which does more than four percent of the country's book business, buyers at the 110-year-old Old Corner Bookstore last month picked My Son, My Son!, bought ten copies to every seven of The Importance of Living...
...Chicago does two percent of the U. S. book business. At Marshall Field's, the biggest Chicago bookstore. My Son, My Son! was the ranking favorite, with Middle Westerners showing a surprising interest in The Basic Writings of Sigmnnd Freud...
...whatever case the Sudetens have into a vast and phoney political extravaganza. But the Sudeten Germans have caught the harsh and compelling sound of the Nazi bands just over the mountains, have listened to Nazi oratory and fallen under the spell of Adolf Hitler's pan-Germanism. Ninety percent of them voted as a unit for Konrad Hen-lein's Sudetendeutsch Partei in the local elections. Nothing unites a group like a grievance and Henlein's grievous story is as follows...
...friend just up from Key West who's been in everything (including a striped suit) and made money too. Has construction company he is just starting with some idea of costs lower to him by 15 percent (Some pretty good idea we trust--whatever the whole thing means...