Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case you didn't know it, there is a line between the good and the had in the city of perpetual Worlds Fairs, and Arthur D. Welton tells you all about it in The Line Between (Sears, $2.00), a gentle little tale of the men and women that one meets in this center of the wild and wooly west. And of course, dual personalities are always interesting. A far cry from the hustle and bustle of Michigan Avenue is a little town in merry England where Duchess Laura lives in her own quaint fashion. As conceived by Mrs. Bellor Loundes...
...presentations we find a bit of history in the making told through the lives of four of the greats. Mr. Maurois is particularly witty in his new biography, one of the best that he has turned out to date. Mr. Belloc has successfully evaded dullness and boredom in his tale of King Charles, and the reader will find him inspiring and enjoyable throughout. Mr. Linklater presents Queen Mary in all of her glory, with all of the activities carefully recorded. It's minus hooey, and is straight from the shoulder. Accurate historical facts and sound reasoning evolve into a work...
...consumer may not get so large an allowance under the code but he will at least get the benefit of strict provisions against misrepresentations. The unhappy buyer of a "doped" car can go straight to the district code Administrator with his tale of a tampered speedometer, sawdust in the gears, ground cork in the differential...
...reasons for retiring, he explains, are twofold; first because "ten years is long enough for one editor to serve," and second, because he wants more time to devote to other undertakings, particularly to the composition of more serious books. One aspects, however, that this is not all the tale. For several years the "Mercury" has been steadily losing circulation and advertising; its prestige has declined seriously, and it is regarded by up-to-date sophisticates as rather passe. It is certain that the acute Mr. Mencken was fully aware of all this and it is highly probable that it played...
...commercial enterprise, the King Ranch is big and profitable. Every year it sells some $900,000 worth of cattle. De ducting operating expenses of $300,000, freight bills and grazing charges of $200,000, and taxes of $100,000, this leaves an operating profit of $300,000. But the tale is by no means told merely in terms of cattle. There is oil in Texas, and a lot of it. And it seems as certain as anything can be in prospecting business that somewhere beneath the ranch's 1,250,000 acres lies oil. For years one company...