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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. papers were once more on sale at London newsstands. But wartime regulations and wartime inflation had sent prices soaring. A Sunday edition that cost 10? in Manhattan sold in London for as much as 2/6 (about 50? at current exchange rates). Reason: no alien periodical could enter Great Britain without special permission from the War Office, except in single copies through the mail. And the increase in postage that newsstands had to pay was aggravated by the rising price of the dollar...
...home delivery were eliminated milk could be retailed in stores at 2? to 4? less than at present. Milk at 9? or 10? a quart would be possible, and at this price consumption would increase, much to farmers' profit, for the dairies pay most for milk that is sold in fluid form (i.e., not manufactured into butter, cheese, etc.). FORTUNE explains the conspiracy of circumstances which has prevented this simple solution, has continued to keep the price of fluid milk at uneconomic levels...
Thus passed into virtual oblivion the St. Nicholas that had nourished some of the major talents of a past generation. To St. Nicholas in 1886 young Richard Harding Davis sold his first story, about football at Princeton. For St. Nicholas Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad, Louisa May Alcott Under the Lilacs, Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy...
...Rayon and paper, two industries sold out for months ahead at sellers' prices, last week slackened operations slightly: paper from 96.1% to 92.6%; rayon from...
Though poetry may not be a profession, Louis Untermeyer has seemed to prove that there is a profession in it. His anthologies of modern poetry have sold 478,081 copies in the U. S.* getting stouter with every edition. They are standard in newspaper libraries, as obituary material on poets, and indispensable to teachers of literature, as candy at the end of term...