Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Wesley admonished them to "sing lustily," keeping always "an eye to God in every word you sing." True to his urging, Methodists have always been among the most song-minded of all Protestants. This week their brand-new hymnal arrives in church pews with the largest advance sale of any book in U.S. publishing history: 2,154,000 copies...
...proclaims a song called Hoffa's Blues, on sale on records last week in the lobby of the Miami Beach Auditorium. Inside, the 1,845 delegates to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convention indeed rolled in for President James Hoffa just about all that he could wish-with the possible exception of his tormentors' heads...
...Cunard group since November, recently stated the dimensions of adversity. Passenger operations have lost $40 mil lion in the past five years. Cargo ship ments and other sources of revenue turned the loss into a slight profit, but, said Sir Basil, Cunard has only been kept going by the sale of investments and property and by tax recoveries...
Shortage of Engines. It could not have happened at a worse time, because the company was about to borrow $75 million, through an offering of convertible debentures, to help finance the production and sale of its growing volume of planes. With the falling stock prices creating the prospect of unfavorable terms for the debentures, a group of underwriters led by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith last week postponed the issue from this week to next...
...business, delights in inventing words. One of his favorites is "bookazine," meaning a soft-cover book marketed like a magazine. Putting that word to work, Shimkin and three other men in 1939 founded his Pocket Books, Inc., the world's most voluminous softback-book producer, with an annual sale of $20 million from its 20% slice of the mass paperback market in the U.S. Another Shimkin word is "biblio-therapeutic," meaning books that help people. With such books, notably Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (12 million copies sold in all editions), Shimkin...