Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while buyers and money were in abundance, goods were not. Best index of the seller's market: retailers (for whom wholesalers used to give lavish parties) this time frantically reached for the dinner checks. But at week's end many a buyer went home with nothing but entertainment to put on his expense account. Cracked one furniture manufacturer: "We're paying a bonus to the salesman who sells the least...
...these lines into a major Tin Pan Alley hit. By last week Mister Five By Five, the work of Broadway's Don (Beat Me Daddy) Raye and Gene De Paul, was close to the million mark in record sales and still stood high on Variety's best-seller list...
Last October Funnypaper Artist Al Capp turned his popular Li'l Abner, published in over 600 papers and top-flight among comic strips, into a three-week slapstick parody of Margaret Mitchell's famed best-seller Gone With The Wind (he called it Gone Wif the Wind). Said Capp: "I really went to town. It was swell...
...Much Money. Equally important, however, are certain other basic causes which union leaders do not like to face. Most important is that employers are now dealing with a seller's market in which labor commands wages far above peacetime levels. Thus some men can earn in four days what they used to make in six. Absenteeism is notoriously high right after payday, and the absenteeism-line (see chart, p. 75) has risen with weekly earnings. The cause of rising earnings is not rate increases alone but also overtime pay gained through the action of the 40-hour-week...
...Less directly involved in war, but caught in its vortex, were Novelist-Biographer Stefan Zweig, dead by his own hand in Brazilian exile ("The artist has been wounded in his concentration. . . ."); sensationalist Richard Julius Herman Krebs (alias Jan Valtin, hero of under-coverman Krebs's 1941 best-seller Out of the Night), imprisoned by the Justice Department for deportation to Germany at war's end; Author Waldo ("I love Argentina. . . .") Frank, who gave a repeat performance of the mauling he received in Kentucky's Harlan County in 1932 by getting attacked by young Fascists in Buenos Aires...