Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that capitalism, after its prodigies of production, is bound to make a bloody and cruel mess of distribution. This view is based on the standard British Socialist reading of 19th Century economic history. His understanding of 20th Century American capitalism is negligible. Of American history he has a fair textbook knowledge, and of the American...
Retiring Author. Dr. DeLee had published (in 1904) a textbook called Obstetrics for Nurses. As successive editions appeared, Nurse Carmon contributed more & more of her own experience, and in the eleventh printing, DeLee formally listed her as coauthor. Now in its 15th printing, Obstetrics for Nurses is the most widely used text of its kind in the U.S., has been translated into Chinese (on microfilm) and Spanish, has sold nearly 300,000 copies...
Three Negro students of Queens College (of the College of the City of New York) called on the chairman of the history department, one day last fall, to lodge a protest. A textbook used in the basic U.S. history course, they said, was offensive to their race. The book: Volume I of The Growth of the American Republic, by two of the nation's top historians, Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison and Columbia's Henry Steele Commager...
...rodders soon took to the textbook-like stories, pictures of engine heads, and cutaway diagrams of new racers which floored ordinary readers. There were how-to-do-it hints from the hot-rodder who hit 120 m.p.h. after "pouring nitrated alky through three 975"; from another whose racing engine "is a Model B Ford, bored .060-inch oversize with Jahns pistons, Pontiac rods and a drilled crankshaft...
...statement. In the last ten years, its gross had risen from $6.8 million to $13.2 million in 1950. Net profit last year was $627,700; dividends totaled $1.50 a share. Macmillan had been able to pay a regular dividend every year since 1898 by concentrating on the educational and textbook field, where the profit margin is higher than that for trade (i.e., general reader) books...