Word: traded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the average college student thinks of publishing he pictures himself doing editorial work for the trade publishers who bring out largely works of fiction, biography, travel and history. Seldom does he thinks of himself as an editor of textbooks, for here it is essential that he be an expert in one or more subjects requiring considerable graduate study and possibly teaching experience...
...objective is determined and fostered by the literary criticisms which he reads in the newspapers and magazines, by the instruction he receives in college in literary appreciation and fine writing. How extensive, then, it this field of trade publishing, and what are its employment possibilities...
...there were 855 trade publishers in the Unites States, a sizeable number until we learn from the Publishers Weekly that in this same year only 240 publishers (including textbook firms) issued five or more books. Of these 240, we are told further, 50 companies did most of the trade business. And finally, it appears that 18 publishers produced almost half the year's trade book output...
...week President C. J. Gignoux of the French Employers' Association was taunted with cries of "Gig-noux to the gallows!" In the Chamber soon afterward Premier Chautemps, who had been having trouble with both Capital's Gignoux and Leon Jouhaux, leader of some 5,000,000 French trade unionists, was denounced by Comrade Arthur Ramette, Communist leader. "If you want your liberty,-I will give it to you!" cried the Premier, weary after weeks of strife. "I will not let the Communists spit in my face...
Author Farson noted with weary spleen that all South Americans are "Yanqui-haters," that all tourist publicity is phony, that the Germans and Japanese are mak-ing mincemeat of U. S. trade. He found a Japanese circus, a Japanese typewriter repairman; Japanese had even gone into the business of making imitation shrunken human heads...