Word: reached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government organ Izvestia revealed that of the 1938 quota of 3,170,000 diapers, the Commissariat of Light Industry had managed to turn out only 765,900 in the first nine months of the year. To make matters worse, Izvestia somewhat puzzlingly added, "many of these failed to reach the ultimate consumer." Presaging a "purge" of the luckless officials, the paper blamed "inefficient organization...
...time. By last week this pocket-size quarterly (10? to 50?, depending upon binding) had broken all records in U. S. religious publishing. No 1938 issue had run under 1,000,000 copies. The winter issue, out last week and advertised as suitable for Christmas greetings, will reach 1,250,000. Altogether, nearly 10,000,000 copies have been sold...
Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Ceferino Garcia challenged Henry Armstrong for his welterweight crown. Many of the 15,000 spectators expected the Filipino, 13 pounds heavier, with an advantage in height and reach also, to land just one sound bolo punch, and the onetime triple champion, who had recently abandoned his featherweight crown, would have only one crown left. But Little Man Armstrong, looking like a pygmy, showed them that his famed strategy of getting in close and pounding away with both fists-fast, furiously and from all angles-is hard to solve, harder to beat...
...next two years British newspaper readers could get anything from can openers to radios free. It was expensive but it built circulations. The Herald was first to reach 2,000,000 (in 1933), only to be outstripped by the Express...
...what keeps the Beaver busy on his telephones and illustrates his idea of the publisher's duty to his readership. To millions of English "small-means men" and their families, it is the most appealing kind of publishing. Some of the latest copies of the Express to reach the U. S. were filled with their usual budget of post-crisis news: the Vicar of Southwold had seen a genuine sea monster offshore, a dog was tried for biting a dustman, a Wiltshire schoolmistress had found a mushroom over eleven inches wide. And across an entire page the Express splashed...