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Publishers and booksellers talk like patrons of literature, but the hard facts of life make them behave like ordinary businessmen. Crowded into a corner, they reluctantly admit that 'first-rate creative writing makes for risky publishing ventures, that to remain solvent they must stay off Parnassus and scurry about the market place. The shrewdest ones kowtow to a composite little woman. The best studies and most educated guesses indicate that she is a high-school graduate of about 35, and that one out of three of her class has been to college. Publishers and booksellers regard her with brooding...
When Kaiser-Frazer last week got a new $25 million RFC loan to help keep it solvent until it can sell its big backlog of cars, the terms were stiff. (K-F already owes RFC $43 million.) RFC ordered K-F to: 1) cut production from 800 to 600 cars a day; 2) raise no prices without RFC consent; 3) pay off the loan with 90% of the wholesale selling price of each car as it is taken out of storage...
...must face. If the U. S. is to carry out the proposals of the Gray report--and our national security may depend on those proposals--it had better be prepared to give plenty, and to give it cheerfully, for as long as our perspective allies need aid to remain solvent and to remain allies...
...failings of the post-war Class Albums and the dealings of "314" business managers scarcely justify supervision of Yearbook Publications' activities. The one year old group, whatever its failings, has established a financially solvent organization for publishing an annual and set up a staff that will not break up completely each year. It deserves the right to improve its product without University interference. There is no reason for judging it on records established by annuals organized on a wholly different basis, the Albums...
...informing the husband that his wife will have to support him. Though this idea comes hard to many men, the fact is that they themselves cannot count on more than ten dollars a week from part-time work. Mrs. Baker points out that few student marriages can be solvent "if the man has any false pride about his wife working full time...