Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plainfield, Mass. For Sale...
TIME itself no longer offers Perpetual Subscriptions, but herewith gladly lets other TIME readers know about one Perpetual Subscription that is for sale...
...advance sale of $8,000 finally saw the Mercury through the opening night of Caesar, which all told cost $16,000 to get under way. After that, finances were a pleasure. Today Welles & Houseman own 70% of the Mercury which, sticking to a $2.20 top, has had an average gross of $6,000 a week, an average...
...Madison Avenue, where Mrs. Kimball runs a children's bookstore, the happy family was not only visiting but also on sale. The triplets are indeed the children of Jean de Brunhoff, but only in a mental sense. For five years, until his death last October, M. de Brunhoff delighted children and adults with tales of two adventurous elephants, Babar and Celeste. Last week Mrs. Kimball opened a bundle from Paris with the latest Babar book and found that Celeste had become the mother of three little elephant babies (see cut). She decided that this was news for the Herald...
...when books are banned it is usually by action of municipal authorities, as Boston's mayor once stopped the sale of Dreiser's American Tragedy, or as the mayor of Omaha, Neb. more recently clamped down on Mari Sandoz' Slogum House. In England books that come under official displeasure are usually withdrawn by the publishers; in European dictatorships their circulation is forbidden by the state. Recent book bans...