Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than the removal of price controls did last year; for the present reluctance to buy is not based upon a surplus of goods but upon a surplus of the wrong kind of goods. Making liberal allowances for increased raw material and labor costs, the inferior merchandise dumped in the seller's market this past year has been priced completely out of line with any inherent quality...
...author of the nation's number-one non-fiction best seller, "Peace of Mind," speaking on "A Faith for Modern Man" before the Hillel Foundation here, said that man can only find his faith through intellectual maturity, which comes through the proper identification, perspective, and interpretation of his own life and the lives of others...
Painter Levi spent only one year in Gagliano, because he was one of the political prisoners to whom the triumphant Fascists granted amnesty after the fall of Addis Ababba. Christ Stopped at Eboli, a best-seller in Italy, is Levi's account of this year of exile. It is another instance of an able, discerning painter taking up a pen and thereby putting professional writers in the shade...
...drugstore fiction, this novel fills an even simpler prescription than its profitable predecessor, The Foxes of Harrow (which stayed triumphantly high on the best-seller lists for more than a year, was sold to 20th Century-Fox and grossed Au thor Frank Yerby something like $250,000). The hero of The Vixens is lean and hard; he moves with controlled grace, and he says everything softly. The girl is slim and golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood...
...Universal-International), an adaptation of Betty MacDonald's cackle-happy best-seller about a city couple who learn to run a poultry farm, will probably be just as popular as the book. Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, who pretend to be the distraught pioneers, are sure-fire box-office comedians. And the show is rife with sure-fire laughs...