Word: publisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wives also conduct a weekly radio program on the college station (sample subject: "How to Live on $90 a Month"), run a library in the recreation hall, sponsor dances, publish the Spartan Wives' News. With their Spartan husbands, they operate a cooperative store that has cut food prices 8 to 10%, saves the wives a mile walk to the nearest grocer or butcher...
...such proportions in influencing the minds of men that it cannot any longer be considered private property responsible to no one but its owners. Its responsibility nowadays is primarily to the community. Therefore, some control becomes inescapable. "The freedom of the press can remain a right of those who publish only if it incorporates into itself the right of the citizen and the public interest." If it continues to be in so many cases inflammatory, irresponsible, and sensational, an increasing demand will inevitably come forth for a federal control which can mean an end to a cherished freedom...
...Army asked the House of Commons for a sizable budget. Heavy snow in Eire curtailed the export of shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. In Naples, striking bakers raided the University library and burned books. In Moscow, Atomic Scientist Peter Kapitza, variously reported purged or resting, emerged to publish a learned paper entitled: "Theoretical and Empirical Expressions for Heat Transfers in a Turbulent Stream...
...Miriam Chapin, sister of Curtice Hitchcock, New York publisher, came across Bonheur in Montreal. When she had read Author Roy's story of life in St. Henri, a smoky slum section of Montreal, she mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work...
...Oxford University Press; $40.50. Next week Oxford will publish a one-volume abridgment edited by D. C. Somervell and revised by Professor Toynbee. In its 589 pages, readers will find Toynbee's argument stripped to its essentials...