Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan. Best Seller Stuart Cloete (The Turning Wheels), who used to live in South Africa, prepared to go back for a year's stay. He explained: "There are too many vibrations here...
...under Massachusetts censorship law, "Forever Amber" found a stout defender yesterday in the person of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who stated that the book did not "corrupt or deprave" him. Appearing as star witness for the defense in the current trial of Kathleen Winsor's risque best-seller, Professor Jones testified that the book "bored" his wife, and left his own moral standards unsullied...
...successfully argue that the picture fails to achieve its main objective--an elaborate yet faithful translation into celluloid of Maugham's best-seller of a few years back. But in this very success lies what is perhaps the film's greatest weakness; for stripped of all the shiny trappings of mysticism and profundity that a facile pen alone can put across, the story reduces itself to a basic substance which is, at most, pretty shadowy. It's really too bad that when the Hollywood moguls finally forgot about the kind of treatment they usually inflict upon a novel they couldn...
...There were other companies still losing money because of 1) low production caused by material shortages or 2) rising costs. And with the seller's market turning into a buyer's market, manufacturers were afraid to boost prices higher. But even some of the laggards were suddenly doing well. Western Union, which had cried recently that it could not help but go into receivership, turned in a profit of $500,000 in the last quarter...
...paid for them," Lofchie stated, "and, since there is no profit for us to deduct, we sell them for that price, which often turns out to be almost a third loss than the same book would cost at one of the local stores. In that way, both buyer and seller get an unusually good deal...