Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strikes were too few, and too slow to attack when called. On the Rhein-Main Airfield observers saw cargo planes parked so close that they made inviting targets. Traffic moved placidly in daylight along the Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn while, just off the road, supply trucks piled up outside the Sunset...
...Sunset magazine is a sort of Western-accented Better Homes & Gardens. A monthly, Sunset tells readers how to 1) barbecue pig in their backyard; 2) cook such exotic edibles as poi, geoduck and abalone; 3) build their bedrooms around the swimming pool; 4) keep a riding horse in the backyard...
...Sunset could well afford to move; it is by far the most successful U.S. regional magazine. Circulation has hit 500,000 (most of it in Pacific coast states), and is still growing. Sunset expects to earn $350,000 this year before taxes...
Dark Morning. For its rosy glow, Sunset can thank the super-salesmanship of a rangy Kansan named Laurence William ("Larry") Lane, 61. In the '20s, Lane was ad manager for Meredith Publications (Better Homes & Gardens) when he came across Sunset, then a money-losing literary magazine with about 60,000 readers. Lane bought Sunset for $60,000, and turned it into a regional how-to-do-it magazine on gardening, building, decorating, food, travel, etc. Sunset ignored Hollywood, fashions and the movies. Says Lane: "We couldn't compete with the national magazines on things like movies, and they...
Lane's idea paid off. Sunset went into the black in 1937, and has stayed there. While Lane keeps an overall eye on the magazine, son Bill Jr., 31, is assistant managing editor, and son Melvin, 29, is production manager...