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...would be news, I feel pretty sure, to the author of your article that our biggest seller in 1944, after A Bell for Adano, was Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, which will have sold over 60,000 copies in 1944 alone, although it was first published 21 years ago. He points out as remarkable, and rightly so, total printings of 30,000 copies for Russell Daven port's My Country. I wonder if he has heard of Walter Benton's This Is My Beloved, which was published in February 1943 and has sold in 1944 approximately...
These predictions hit the ears of the Citizens Board of the University of Chicago like a series of rock-filled snowballs. For the prophet was the University's Theodore W. Schultz, professor of agricultural economics, adviser to the United Nations Food Commission, economic consultant to the Lend-Lease Administration, and general agricultural Pooh...
...farm prophet impressed by the prospects for increased domestic demand. Even granting a 20% gain in income in ten years after the war, and a 5% population increase, he held that the demand for farm products would gain only 9%, whereas production will increase 15% during the same period...
...lusty "Happy birthday, dear Henry!" Responded the shy, dignified Secretary of War: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very grateful. After that, everything seems drab." Asked to guess the date of V-day, he said: "Well, I hope I live long enough to see V-day. Further than that the prophet sayeth...
...wrote of women {Woman's Work in Municipalities, America Through Women's Eyes, etc.) without feminist ax grinding. Over the years kindly, ruddy-cheeked Charles Beard achieved the stature of a national institution. To hundreds of young pro fessional historians, he became a hero and a prophet, the acknowledged leader of a reformist school which attacked the abstractions of conservatism by an economic reinterpretation of U.S. history...