Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bound home from France after an eight-month visit was best-seller Richard Wright (Black Boy, Native Son); but he was going back again in the spring. "America is not the New World," wrote the Negro novelist in a Parisian journal, "because the social elements in the States are among the oldest . . . whereas Europe has abandoned the ancient structure. . . . Thus, France and Europe should be considered the New World...
...gave proof that the possibility was very real indeed. In a seller's market for labor, labor's leaders did exactly what they berated management for doing in a seller's market for products-they held out for high returns. The holdouts were one of the two big reasons (the other: shortages of materials, to which the holdouts contributed) why the U.S. fell so far short of maximum production. With some 4,000,000 more at work than ever before, the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production never got above 185, falling far short...
...thirteenth printing, "General Education In A Free Society" achieves first honors as the 1946 best seller of the Harvard University Press. Concluding a year beset by paper shortages and printing difficulties, the Press nevertheless published 46 volumes, ranging from the esoteric "Spina Bifida and Cranium Bifidum" and "Tables of the Hankel Functions of Order One-Third and of Their Derivatives" to the more popular "Boston After Bulfinch" and "Serge Koussevitzky...
Although by no means a best seller, the proudest accomplishment of the publishing organization is the monumental four-volume edition of the William Makepeace Thackeray letters...
...Members of Hecate Country" my ba a best-seller, but as far as readers in the Widener Library are concerned, the book is pacifically non-existent...