Word: traders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Are conservative Houghton, Mifflin Co. treading the trail blazed by Simon & Schuster, fad promoters, publishers of Trader Horn and Cradle of the Deep? Is the Pedro Gorino another dubious "autobiography"? Like Ethelreda Lewis, amanuensis for Horn, Captain Dean's "assistant writer," Sterling North, met his subject receptively, admiringly. It was in March 1928, that University of Chicago authorities introduced them. Harry Dean, like Trader Horn, was broke, peddling his talents. North was 20, a poet, storyteller, student; Dean was 63, face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been...
...prices of second hand text books never fail to produce a paradox in the mind of the average amateur trader. Somehow when he comes to sell his books in the Spring the return seems to bear little relation to the remarkable outlay required of him in September. The reason of course is clear enough, the cost of handling and storage are so great that in order to make a fair profit the dealers in such literature have to pocket about twenty percent of the list price...
...oldtime Chicago wheat trader put it: "It's a footrace to Market?and a pretty poor market at that." Europe, whither Canada and the U. S. are racing to dump their surplus wheat, already has surplus wheat of its own and more surpluses pouring in from Australia and the Argentine...
Horn. No U. S. insurance company would underwrite personnel and equipment of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company going into African jungles to make a picture of the reminiscences of Trader Horn...
...whopper-publishers sent forth The Cradle of the Deep as "autobiography" -truth, human document, veracious account of the author's first 17 years as a child of the sea aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, the Minnie A. Caine, copra trader in the South Seas. The chaste and conservative Book-of-the-Month Club offered it to its 80,000 readers. The publishers offered it to the general public. Sales reached...