Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away the Japanese best-seller last week was Field Marshal MacArthur, a laudatory 64-page pamphlet biography by Ippo Yamazaki, well-known Japanese novelist. In six months it has sold 850,000 copies, is expected to top a million as soon as the publishers get paper for another printing. Other top titles on the Japan Publishers Association's current list of bestsellers...
Britons could take comfort in one reality: Argentina's best customer would continue to be Britain, and Argentines knew it. Buyer and seller must somehow find a way to get together...
Manhattan's gum-chewing, lip-smacking Daily News had the last word. Said the News: "Memoirs is [Edmund Wilson's] first score on the best-seller list, and the only reason it was there for several weeks is because word got around that oh, boy, you ought to get a load of this...
...there were also some eye-opening high-priced items. One manufacturer offered an upholstered two-piece suite at $1,000, a suite he had stopped making at the start of the depression. He sold 1,010 suites the first day. But buyers did not think the seller's market in furniture would last much beyond the year's end. Already there were signs of change. Said Wallace 0. Oilman, general manager of the Merchandise Mart: "There is no longer the hurried mad rush for 'anything...
...were not far from where they started. Textile men talked price increases but, in general, did not make them. Reason: cotton cloth output is up 35% over the preWar average, and supply is expected to catch up to demand before the close of 1946. Price boosts may bring the seller's market to an end even sooner...