Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simon & Schuster withdrew from sale two highly-praised novels by Jerome Weidman (I Can Get it for You Wholesale and What's in it for Me?). Reason: their principal character, Harry Bogen, a smart-guy Jew, is enough to rouse anti-Semitic sentiments in a rabbi. Also withdrawn was Miniature Photography, by one of the firm's partners, Richard Simon. Reason: it commends some German-built cameras...
Putting fiction to shame, the McKesson & Robbins story ran the gamut from gunrunning to human hair for sale, even included a trapdoor. And at the plot's centre was one of the most incredible characters that ever left fingerprints in the sands of time-the man who moved in Wall Street as Tycoon F. Donald Coster...
Commemorating the 50-year Jubilee of one of its most distinguished former editors, the Advocate is publishing a "T.S. Eliot" number for its December issue. The magazine will go on sale today and tomorrow...
...page pamphlet, complaining of the bad fare from which the "outhousers" suffered, proposed "that the outhousers may, regulating the supply so as to keep up the price, be offered for sale to the persons of quality and fortune throughout the College; always taking care that they eat plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table...
Such a throng of sentimental and thrifty people rushed to the sale that for the first time in 90 years Charles & Co. was forced to close its doors during store hours. The crowd was then put in line, handled like any cinema overflow. The 220 Charles employes were loyal to the store, resentful of the newfangled ways that had helped to kill it. One customer asked a busy saleswoman on the second floor: "Is this the Hostess Shop?" Said the clerk: "Ha, it was, madam, or so they say it was. I never thought...