Word: regular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Lamar's traning camp for boxers, in the Indoor Athletic Building, opens today for both the battle-scarred veterans and for the greener of the species. Regular boxing instruction will take place daily 3 to 4 o'clock and 4 to 5 o'clock; and if necessary, 2 to 3 o'clock and 5 to 6 o'clock...
...regular meeting yesterday of the Board of Overseers, Jerome D. Greene '96 was elected Assistant Secretary of the Board. Greene is also Secretary to the Corporation, and will continue in that capacity after taking over his new position...
...Clyde Leroy Seavey, acting chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Administrator John M. Carmody of the Rural Electrification Administration and Ervin E. King, Master of the Washington State Grange, in whose bailiwick the Government is building the great Bonneville Dam hydroelectric project. When reporters trooped in later for the regular press conference, they found the President full of thoughts on Power. He launched into a long dissertation on the theory of utility rates. By the time the reporters were free to head for telephones, they had a front-page business story, for the President had offered peace terms...
Publishers. Because they exercise an enormous influence on U. S. taste, despite the facts that their branch of the industry is overshadowed by others, and that their business is hazardous, speculative, parochial, regular trade publishers keep the centre of the publishing stage. Although 855 of them scramble for the $70,000,000 annual sales of regular trade publishing, almost half of each year's output of new titles comes from only 18 firms. As the Book Fair opened, these 18 could look back on the biggest publishing year since 1929. Last year produced 8,584 new titles...
...books under certain conditions. Another answer is the difficulty most people have in finding a bookstore where they can get the books they want when they want them. Although there are 4,000 U. S. bookstores, only 500 carry full stocks and buy directly from publishers. If all regular bookbuyers were organized into a club, it would be high-hat in the Deep South, slightly less in the Middle West, not exclusive in California, downright common in Boston and a mass organization in New York, where booksellers, publishers, authors, reviewers and readers are concentrated. The aggressive price-cutting department...